Restoring teeth.
Once your tooth has been diagnosed by the dentist, a proper treatment plan will be devised. This may involve a local anesthetic, to help avoid any discomfort to you. Then once the decay is removed, the problem tooth will receive a direct restoration or an indirect restoration.

Direct Restoration – Usually done when there is at least sufficient tooth structure left to maintain the majority of the natural tooth and can usually be restored in one visit. There are two types of filling that are used, amalgam fillings (which are silver coloured) and composite fillings which are tooth coloured. Tooth coloured fillings are being used more these days due to their superior esthetic qualities.

Indirect Restoration – May take two or more appointments to complete. This type of restoration is made outside of your mouth by a lab or a milling machine, and they will need to be cemented into place. Some indirect restorations are crowns (which cover the entire tooth), inlays (fits inside tooth and can replace a tooth wall), and onlays (replace at lease one cusp of the tooth). .