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Category: Composite Fillings Dallas

Repairing Your Smile With Tooth-Colored Fillings

What services are available to help repair your unhealthy tooth? If chemical or physical erosion damages the protective enamel layer, it must be resealed to prevent further injuries. By placing a tooth-colored filling, we can reinforce your tooth’s strength while

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What A Composite Filling Does For Your Tooth

What can you expect in terms of treatment for an unhealthy tooth? Unfortunately, while our teeth are protected by their enamel, damage that does occur can lead to permanent vulnerabilities. To protect the tooth structure, your Dallas, TX dentist will

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Composite Fillings: A Complete Guide

When you have to get a filling, you might have a host of questions, particularly if you’re getting a composite filling. You might want to know just what a composite filling is and how it differs from a regular filling.

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Do Composite Fillings Last as Long as Metal Fillings?

Patients who need to have a cavity filled usually are faced with a choice between tooth-colored composite fillings or amalgam (metal) restorations. The different materials have distinct qualities, so it’s important for patients to decide which factors are most important

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When are composite fillings recommended?

Have you been told that you have a cavity? Perhaps you suspect that you have developed tooth decay and realize it is time to see a dentist. When it comes to treating minor tooth decay, a filling is the go-to

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Are composite fillings durable?

Many patients prefer composite fillings over amalgam ones because the former restorations are tooth-colored and don’t detract from the smile, like noticeably dark metal ones do. Additionally, the composite fillings are mercury-free, which is important to some patients, as mercury

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Alternatives to Mercury Fillings

Have you been told that you need a filling? Do you fear having noticeable dental work? While amalgam fillings were the most common type of restoration in the past, there are alternatives to metal dental work that look incredibly natural.

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Tips to Prevent Tooth Decay

Tooth decay is a serious oral health issue that can result in the need for composite fillings or even more advanced and invasive interventions. In order to avoid the need for such treatments, we try to educate our patients on

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Benefits of Composite Fillings

Composite fillings are one of the most popular ways to address tooth decay. Used to treat small cavities, composite fillings offer patients some unique benefits when compared to dark, metal fillings of the past. Our dentist offers composite resin fillings

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