Mercury Filling Replacement Why Replace Mercury Fillings? Health Reasons: We are happy to replace your old metal fillings with porcelain or tooth colored fillings if you are concerned about the effects of mercury on your overall health and wellbeing. Cosmetic Reasons: Traditional metal mercury is black or gray, becoming dark colored over-time, decreasing the brightness of your smile. With tooth-colored dental restoration materials, we can replace these metal fillings with natural looking restorations. Most people prefer the look of tooth-colored fillings over the unnatural appearance of metal fillings that were developed over a hundred years ago.   DISADVANTAGES OF METAL MERCURY FILLINGS: · require more healthy tooth  to be removed. · Create outwards pressure on the tooth, since they are tightly packed into the cavity rather than bonded to the tooth. This progressively weakens the tooth, eventually causing cracking, requiring a crown and/or root canal treatment. · Continuously contract and expand with hot and cold in the mouth, which weaken the  tooth. This happens the same way that mercury is used in thermometers, where it expands with higher temperatures and contracts with lower temperatures. Porcelain or Plastic? Both materials can be used as fillings, however we recommend porcelain Inlays or Onlays because  they are stronger, more durable and look beautiful. Plastic is great for small fillings, but when used for large restorations it needs to be replaced more frequently. With constant replacement, it increases the chance of you needing root canal treatment and eventually the tooth will require a porcelain restoration anyways. CEREC 3D: Single-Visit Porcelain Filling Placement Porcelain Crowns, Inlays and Onlays …All In One Visit! At Dr. Botbol and Associates, porcelain crowns, inlays, and onlays can be created and bonded into place in only one visit, using our computer-aided CEREC 3D system. Dr. Botbol has trained at the University of Michigan with Cerec Manual developer Dr. Dennis Fasbinder as well as with Esthetic Inlay and Onlay pioneer Dr. Ron Jackson, who is one of the heads at the world renowned Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies and has successfullyplaced thousands of porcelain restorations It used to be that this kind of treatment meant one appointment to prepare the tooth and take an impression for the lab, and another a few weeks later to put in the permanent restoration.  With CEREC 3D, the whole procedure only takes only an hour. First, we remove only the decayed or weakened part of the tooth. The CEREC 3D system is so precise, we are able to preserve much more of the good structure than is normally possible. Next, we use a special camera to take a digital photo of your tooth which the CEREC 3D software converts into a 3-D model of your new tooth. With the simple click of a button, our milling machine makes your restoration from a custom ceramic block.  In minutes it is bonded into place. There is NO 2nd appointment. You are now ready to walk out the door with a radiant new smile! Call us today to see if CEREC is right for you! Benefits of CEREC 3D Technology · One visit · No messy impressions · Most durable all-porcelain restoration · Metal free · Finest Dental Materials · No temporaries