Is your smile tarnished by metal fillings? Advancements in modern dentistry are allowing researchers to develop state of the art, aesthetically superior materials that imitate while strengthen your teeth. Dentists can now offer white fillings as a general dentistry solution that are not only safer and more effective than mercury filled amalgams and are customised to blend with the natural colour of your teeth.

A white dental filling typically requires only one dental visit, during which the tooth or teeth are prepared and restored with white fillings. An advantage of white tooth fillings, as compared with other dental restorations, is that they need less of the healthy part of a tooth to be removed to hold the filling in position. This is because the fillings composite materials are capable of bonding to the teeth adhesively.

The dentist will then apply an adhesive followed by a number of thin layers of the natural tooth coloured material. Once the filling is in place, it is chemically hardened, or cured, for a minute with a special light. White fillings are ideal for patients who are sensitive to metals and are concerned about the mercury content of an amalgam filling. For whatever reason you can be rest assured your new white filling will be safer, look natural and preserve your natural beautiful smile.

Dr David Moffet is a cosmetic dentist in Parramatta, NSW providing white tooth coloured fillings as an alternative to traditional amalgam fillings. For more information please visit