If you have a cavity and would prefer a tooth-colored filling, just ask! If such a filling is the best option for your particular needs, I’m more than happy to place a white filling. (There are times when amalgam fillings are a preferable solution.)

The biggest benefit of tooth-colored fillings is that they are aesthetically more appealing than silver (they virtually disappear in the tooth). The filling is made of either a composite resin or porcelain.

If the case, it can composite resin filling is appropriate for your be placed directly in your tooth in one appointment. If your cavity is larger and requires a porcelain inlay or onlay, we will take a mold of your tooth and send it to a lab to have the porcelain restoration custom created just for you. In the meantime, a temporary filling will be placed in your tooth.

When the lab sends us your restoration, you’ll come back in. We’ll remove the temporary and permanently seat the porcelain inlay or onlay in your tooth.

Both composite resin and porcelain dental restorations are safe and strong, and as we mentioned before, will disappear in your smile. Your tooth will look so natural, no one will know you have had your tooth restored.

If you would like to restore your teeth with tooth colored fillings, call my Buckhead dental practice today.