Metal-Free Dentistry

Does your smile reveal a mouth full of silver fillings? Sure, metal fillings are unattractive. But they also may be detrimental to your teeth and your overall health.

Silver-mercury fillings are extremely reactive to hot and cold, expanding and contracting with each change in temperature. Imagine eating hot soup and drinking iced tea!

When the fillings change sizes, teeth can crack or break. Also, every silver-mercury filling leaks and corrodes around the edges. Harmful bacteria can get beneath your filling, causing further decay to the tooth it was meant to protect.

Is There Mercury In My Mouth?

There are other reasons to be concerned as well. Those silver fillings are made of mercury (the same substance found in old thermometers). There have been documented and serious concerns about the mercury from old fillings. Dr. Winans would never use this antiquated material for anyone in his family or on his dental team. Would you want it for you and your family?

For your health and that of your smile, Dr. Winans insists on the best alternative, using only composite resin fillings or porcelain onlays to restore teeth to the natural beauty and function. Both composite resin fillings and onlays are the same color of teeth and are virtually undetectable. More importantly, they are much more conservative restorations than metal fillings, allowing more of the healthy tooth structure to remain intact.

While traditional fillings reduce tooth strength by more than 50 percent, composite resins and onlays can actually increase tooth strength by up to 110 percent, lasting a very long time. It could be time for you to upgrade your old fillings to new restorations that give you the attractive, strong teeth that you deserve.

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