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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / May 2006Amalgam filling repair - Advice Needed
One of my fillings Amalgam fililngs fell out over the weekend. There is still a good size piece of filling left inside my tooth. I saw a dentist today and he took some xrays, he wanted to drill out the old filling completely and replace it with new one. Of course after I saw the xray I wanted him to just clean out the hole and fill it back up. We settled on a cleaning since I was already in the office. So my question is what is the chances of that tooth becomming a problem again in the future if I just have him clean out the hole and fill it in with some porcalin? Would their be any drawbacks to having two types of fillings in the same tooth? Depends .... we almost always drill out what is there because who knows if it is decayed under .. hower there are special circumstances too .... Joel vu1208@gmail.com Wrote: > One of my fillings Amalgam fililngs fell out over the weekend. There > is still a good size piece of filling left inside my tooth. I saw a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > in with some porcalin? Would their be any drawbacks to having two > types of fillings in the same tooth -- Joel34 There is no choice: any decent dentist takes out the rest of the filling and replaces the whole filling: WHY?? a- amalgam DOES NOT stick to amalgam and the interface between the two [old filling and new filling] will not be sealed b- THERE IS no way to know if there is decay under the old filling. Period. When the repair patch fails, that is grounds for a malpractice suit that can NOT be defended succesfully. > One of my fillings Amalgam fililngs fell out over the weekend. There > is still a good size piece of filling left inside my tooth. I saw a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > in with some porcalin? Would their be any drawbacks to having two > types of fillings in the same tooth? Why did you just want him to clean out the hole and fill it in? I'm just curious. Two reasons. The first being I hate needles, especially comming towards my head. The second reason is I don't trust dentists. I got that tooth filled in probably 4 years after it replaced my baby teeth if not less. I was so young that I can't even remember getting it filled. Its just boogles my mind that a any cavity would warrant drilling that deeply into my tooth. |
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