{"id":375,"date":"2022-01-06T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:12:01","slug":"dental-aesthetics-white-fillings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/dental-aesthetics-white-fillings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Aesthetics- White Fillings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

White\nfillings Wimbledon<\/a> are more popular than ever becoming a mainstay of the\nclinic’s workload at least when it comes to restorative care! Let’s find out\nmore about how they are done and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traditional fillings or the ones that come to mind most rapidly are silver white metal amalgam fillings. They have a very long history in dentistry but are far from the first; they themselves are actually replacements to gold fillings. This is both an attempt to have a cheaper fully functioning, more hard-wearing long lasting filing that would require significantly less maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metal amalgam as a health risk?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been some controversy around silver\nmetal amalgam but in normal temperatures and conditions (short of being inside\na furnace!) amalgam fillings are stable and safe. But this has not altered many\npatients wanting to change them for newer resin-based fillings. Unless they are\nloose or decay has set in underneath them, \nthere is unlikely to be any medical need to disturb them. But newer\nresin-based fillings do look far more natural and can be blended in with the\nsurrounding tooth in a way that has never been possible with silver amalgam. So\nthey should be considered an aesthetic cosmetic choice rather than a medical\nneed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UV cured resins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has made such realistic and hard-wearing white fillings Wimbledon<\/strong> possible has been the ever-growing\nuse of UV cured resins in dentistry. They have several excellent properties\nboth as an excellent adhesive holding traditional prosthetics in place but also\nas a material that can be built with itself, by curing the resin in layers to\nform much larger structures. These can then be sculpted with drills and buffed\nand polished like normal enamel into their final forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resins find themselves being implemented in a\nwide range of restorations, from subtle chips all the way up to in situ resin\ncrowns, where an entire compromised tooth is coated in multiple resin layers;\nsomewhere between the two is composite fillings. So the next time you see the\ndistinctive blue light of a UV lamp shining in somebody’s mouth at a dental\nsurgery, you’ll know why and don’t be too surprised if in the not too distant\nfuture you find yourself making use of UV resin technologies in a dental\nprocedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thermal expansion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to prosthetics, size and shape have\nalways been critical; too loose and a prosthetic would rattle, too tight and it\nwould cause pain- this is true in dentistry. But people’s mouths experience a\ngreater range of temperatures as opposed to most of their highly regulated\nbodies, jumping into the high 90\u2019s with hot coffee or down into the – 5 with\nice cream. This creates a change of thermal expansion; when a material that\nfits perfectly at body temperature wishes to expand at higher temperatures but\nas it is surrounded by a tooth, it simply cannot expand without applying\npressure to the enamel and dentine which it is embedded in. But white fillings Wimbledon<\/strong> are formed of long polymers with\nlittle-to-no thermal expansion rather than silvers and golds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White fillings Wimbledon are more popular than ever becoming a mainstay of the clinic’s workload at least when it comes to restorative care! Let’s find out more about how they are done and why? Traditional fillings or the ones that come to mind most rapidly are silver white metal amalgam fillings. They have a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-fillings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wimbledondentalcare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}