Tooth coloured fillings are composites that are used to restore damaged, are used as a filling to treat tooth cavity or missing tooth tissue in both front and back teeth. Composite is a resin-based polymer which sticks well to teeth, provides good durability to withstand moderate pressure from the constant stress of chewing. The tooth-coloured filling materials that is actually a mixture of plastic and fine glass particles.

Advantages of  Tooth coloured fillings

• Aesthetics: Since these composite fillings are similar to the teeth’s natural colour, they are mostly used for the front teeth or visible areas of the teeth.
• Bonding to tooth structure: these composite fillings provide support by chemically bonding to the tooth structure.
• Versatility: they are not only used for filling material for decay, composite fillings but are also used to repair chipped, broken, or worn teeth.
• Tooth-Sparing preparation: sometimes more of the tooth structure can be spared compared to the use of amalgam fillings, especially in the process of removing decay and preparing for the filling.
• No health risks associated with the use of composite fillings.