Restore Your Smile With Dental Fillings

Restore Your Smile With Dental Fillings

Dental fillings offer important benefits for decayed teeth. Here at DeClerck Family Dental in Findlay, OH, your dentist, Dr. Krystal DeClerck, helps patients' care for their smiles with dental fillings, checkups, and other services and treatments—read on to learn how she can help you too.

Dental filling benefits

No one likes to hear the words, "You have a cavity," but it's not always easy to avoid tooth decay, even if you practice good oral hygiene. Plaque can hide in tiny pits and grooves in the molars in the back of your mouth or lurk under the edges of overlapping teeth.

A chemical reaction occurs when the bacteria in plaque combines with sugary or carbohydrate-rich foods. The reaction produces strong acids that attack tooth enamel and cause tooth decay.

Fortunately, dental fillings from our Findlay office can protect and restore teeth affected by cavities. Fillings offer a few benefits you may not have considered, including:

  • Easier Chewing: Pain from a cavity can make it difficult to chew on one side of your mouth. Chewing on only one side increases wear-and-tear on those teeth and may boost your risk of developing temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ). Filling your tooth makes it possible to chew on both sides of your mouth once again.
  • Natural Appearance: If you don't want to share your dental work with the world, tooth-colored fillings are an excellent option. Tooth-colored fillings, the most common type of fillings used today, are tinted to match common tooth shades. Made of composite resin, these fillings are practically unnoticeable. Since your filling is the same shade of your tooth, it won't cast shadows that can make your tooth look darker.
  • Stronger Teeth: A tooth-colored filling bonds to your tooth enamel and actually strengthens it. Removing part of your tooth, an essential part of the filling process, can weaken the tooth, particularly if you have a large cavity. Because tooth-colored fillings only require removal of a small margin of healthy tooth structure, your tooth remains stronger overall. Tooth-colored fillings can be used in new cavities or replace older fillings.

Need dental work? Give us a call

Improve your smile with dental fillings! Call DeClerck Family Dental in Findlay, OH, today at (419) 422-8972 to make an appointment with your dentist, Dr. Krystal DeClerck.

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