Although amalgam has a successful history, it has always detracted from white teeth and a beautiful smile.  Composite fillings consist of a resin matrix and finely ground glass-like particles mixed to a paste consistency to produce a tooth-coloured restoration which can match your natural teeth perfectly.

Composite fillings have excellent durability and resistance to fracture in small-to-mid size restorations that need to withstand moderate biting and chewing pressure. When fillings become large for example, when one or more cusps require replacement a porcelain onlay or crown may be more long lasting.

One of the benefits of placing composite fillings is less natural tooth structure is removed when preparing your tooth, this results in a smaller filling than if an amalgam filling were placed.

While white fillings can be a successful replacement or alternative to amalgam they are much more technically demanding to place and require extreme attention to detail in order to produce an ideal long lasting result. This also means each procedure takes slightly longer than that old amalgam. As a guide we can often complete only one to two fillings in an hour appointment. Doing this faster is not better.

Dr’s Jon Kerr and Keith Doonan have undergone extensive training and are experts in placing beautiful composite resin restorations. Our aim is to recreate the tooth surface to be as it was prior to the new filling with all the ideal cusps, grooves, contours and relationships with adjacent and opposing teeth, in a colour which matches the surrounding tooth structure.