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.
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 serious concerns about the mercury from the old fillings leaking into the body. 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 porcelain onlays to restore teeth to the natural beauty and function.
Made of porcelain resin, onlays are the same color of teeth and are virtually undetectable. More importantly, an onlay is a much more conservative restoration than a metal filling, allowing more of the healthy tooth structure to remain intact.
While traditional fillings reduce tooth strength by more than 50 percent, 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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