Mercury Amalgam Filling Removal With Hobsonville Point Dental

Mercury is perhaps the most common element utilised in dengtal amalgam fillings, and could be triggering serious health conditions inside your body. The information gained through research will make elimination of mercury fillings seem like a great move when it comes to preserving your wellbeing.

The talk over the health-related consequences of amalgam tooth fillings has raged for several decades. Mercury, a very dangerous element has been utilised in fillings since about 1813, and it has ended up a controversial practice since its inception.

Traditional silver or mercury amalgam fillings (also commonly known as metal fillings) have become a concern to many of Hobsonville Point Dental’s clients because of the mercury they contain. Although amalgam fillings are a combination of metals including silver, tin, copper and zinc, mercury comprises up to 50% of the amalgam filling. 

Little has changed with mercury amalgam filling since it was invented in 1813 by the English chemist, Bell. Apart from being unsightly they have remained an effective filling material for nearly 150 years in dentistry due their stability and affordability. However, there is now a wider, and far superior, range of material choices available, and beginning in 1999, the Hobsonville Point Dental team chose white (also known as composite resin or tooth coloured) fillings for all of their dental work involving filling placement. 

Their patients increasingly request the removal of their mercury amalgam fillings to have them replaced with bonded, tooth coloured, non-metallic restorations ie white composite resin fillings or porcelain overlays or crowns. They have concerns with overexposure to mercury from amalgam fillings and they are also worried about tooth fractures and secondary tooth decay as a result of decades old amalgam fillings.

White fillings are virtually invisible, strengthen the tooth as they are bonded in, long lasting and can be shaded by Hobsonville Point Dental’s dentists to expertly match existing teeth, so to find out more about their dental procedures, please visit the website at http://www.hobsonvillepointdental.co.nz .