Dental Filling Options
Thanks to many new advances in modern dental materials and techniques, dentists have more ways to create natural-looking smiles. Dental manufacturers and researchers are continuing their decades-long work developing materials, such as ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth. As a result, dentists and patients have many different choices when it comes to selecting materials to repair worn, damaged or decayed teeth.
Some of the new materials like Sculpture, eMax, belleGlass and few others provide very natural, life-like restorations for the damaged teeth.
These new materials have not eliminated the usefulness of more traditional dental materials, such as gold, base metal alloys and dental amalgam. That’s because the strength and durability of traditional dental materials continue to make them useful for situations, such as fillings in the back teeth where chewing forces are greatest.
Dental amalgam is one of the materials used by dentists to repair teeth. Dental amalgam is a stable alloy made by combining elemental mercury, silver, tin, copper and possibly other metallic elements. Although dental amalgam continues to be a safe, commonly used restorative material, some concern has been raised because of its mercury content. However, the mercury in amalgam combines with other metals to render it stable and safe for use in filling teeth.
While questions have arisen about the safety of dental amalgam relating to its mercury content, the major U.S. and international scientific and health bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization, among others have been satisfied that dental amalgam is a safe, reliable and effective restorative material.
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