Amalgam has been used filling as dental material for cavities for the past 150 years. It's also called silver filling, mercury filling and black filling. Even though it doesn't look nice cosmetically, scientific researches show that it's safe as dental material. It only needs to be replaced when it has defects, cracks, or decays. In this case, the amalgam was replace by the white filling (composite resin) because it had secondary dental caries. #Fillings

Deep decay can close to the pulp (nerve), almost touched! Eventually we managed to remove all the dental caries and do a dental filling with nerve protection. The tooth hasn't had any pain since the filling but it still has a question mark in long term, which means the tooth may still need root canal treatment in the future. That's why we always recommend 6 monthly checkup and clean , so we can treat dental diseases at early stage to avoid more complicated and expensive pro

Symptoms: Tooth felt sensitive. Food got impacted between teeth. Problems: Defective filling with marginal leakage and open contact between teeth. If it had been left un-treated, it would have caused decays on the tooth and the adjacent tooth, gum inflammation and infection because of food impaction. We replaced the old filling. On x-ray, it showed that the new filling achieved tight contact with good margin. No more food impaction - a better filling makes you feel better.

This patient walked in complaining of sore gum and food impacted between teeth. On examination, it showed a defective composite resin...