Cavities can form in your teeth if you let your home oral hygiene routine slip and allow plaque to damage your enamel and create holes. It is vital that these holes are filled up so that the problem cannot carry on getting worse until you are left with a mere husk of a tooth that cannot function and might be best removed from the mouth all together.
The only solution to the problem of existing cavities in the past was to get them filled with metal. This was, of course, entirely necessary but the results were never aesthetically pleasing and could often be imprecise and come out after a certain period. The dark patches on people’s teeth were never really the ideal solution.
Increasingly dentists are abandoning these old methods in favour of the far more effective results that can be achieved with the use of cosmetic bonding techniques. Instead of filling the cavities with metal, a substance that dentists call dental composite is used instead. This is far more malleable and easier to work with than the metal of old. Cosmetic bonding fillings are more likely to have increased longevity and less likely to need replacing in the short term.
Probably the most pleasing thing about cosmetic bonding vis-à-vis metal fillings is that dental composite is specially made so that it is the same colour as the surrounding teeth. This is a much more edifying prospect for those people who have experienced the unpopular dark patches in their mouth. And for these people, the extra piece of good news is that dentists can actually replace metal fillings with stunning, white, cosmetic bonding, allowing you to feel proud of your smile.
