Honest Family Dental

Ceramic Fillings

Why needed?  You have lost tooth structure, from either tooth decay and/or a fracture, and require it to be repaired.

Will it hurt?  It’s very unlikely you will feel my injection.  Honed over the past 15 years, I’ve mastered the painless injection technique.  Also, I use the most advanced anesthetics on the market, so less shots are even needed.   

A little dental secret I’ll let you in on. Fillings are one of the most difficult dental procedures to do well.  Achieving a “passing” a grade is easy.  Doing them awesome takes time, techniques, and technology that many dentists, unfortunately, don’t care to invest in.  The reason is simple:  Insurance companies pay the bare minimum for fillings.  So more than likely, you are getting exactly that.  I don’t have the ethical latitude to compromise my work.  So, I just do the absolute best for everyone.

As for filling options, I only use ceramic-based biocompatible materials, made by the German company, Voco. 

If the area to be filled is too large for ceramic, alone, to structurally withstand, you will be given the option to upgrade it to a fiberglass-reinforced ceramic filling.  Basically, the world’s strongest filling.