What Exactly Is Dental Filling?
Tooth filling is a form of treatment, that used to correct material losses in the tooth due to various reasons. It is one of the oldest and extensively used treatment options in dentistry. The rate of people who have fillings in the society is very high. In general, one of the first reasons for encountering the dentist is filling for the treatment of caries in milk teeth as a child. For this reason, most of the individuals in the society have a memory of tooth filling in one way or another.
The reasons for the use of dental fillings can be caused by material losses on the tooth due to cavities, traumas or aesthetic needs.
Filling needs arising from these reasons are met with filling materials specially used for dentistry. Filling materials with various and different properties can be used according to the place, shape, size of the tooth and the age of the patient for material losses in the teeth.
Amalgam fillings are a type of filling material that dentists have been happy to use for a very long time, but its use is gradually decreasing due to the complaints of patients about the color of the filling. Since amalgam fillings create a constant question mark about the mercury they contain, they are less preferred by physicians in practice. For these reasons, the use of amalgam fillings has decreased, its development has generally stopped and it is now used very little.
Depending on fluoride secretion and its ease after the compomer filling is done, it continues to be used frequently in the treatment of milk teeth in children. Compomer fillings, which can be both aesthetic in color and can be painted in colors such as pink, red, blue, yellow that children may like, help to establish a good relationship with children. As a result, they both help reduce children’s dentist fears and timidities, and provide motivation for children after treatment. At the same time, these fillings contribute to the health of milk teeth, as they respond to chewing forces as the milk teeth.
Composite fillings produce extremely successful results aesthetically. They can be used in every region and every tooth with peace of mind due to the reasons such as being very close to natural teeth, resistant to chewing forces as natural teeth and not being affected by saliva. Their polishing has very successful results and a well-made composite filling can be slippery enough to make the patient’s natural teeth jealous. Post-making color changes do not occur in the short term. The use of nano technology in both composite filling materials and bonding materials that allow the fillings to adhere to the tooth has helped to ensure that the composite fillings made to the teeth remain healthy for a long time.
The calibration skills of the light instruments used for the hardening of the composite fillings provide a homogeneous hardening by giving a healthy light at the required intensity for long periods of time, so that the solid formed fillings are almost monoblock with the teeth; which both minimized the gap that may occur between the teeth and composite fillings, and prevented the sensitivities that may occur after filling and the formation of secondary caries.
