Replacement Restorations
When restorations fail, they need to be replaced and any newly infected tooth removed prior to it being restored. This may involve replacement of like restorations: For example silver amalgam, placed with less than ideal attention to detail, being replaced with silver amalgam carved to restore the details of tooth anatomy. Here using the alloy Tytin.
Poorly finished amalgam filling.
New sculptured amalgam.
Posterior Composites - Restoring natural tooth anatomy
Or it may, as in these next examples, involve the replacement of fractured or failing amalgam restorations with posterior composite restorations, here, and subsequently, using "The Aesthetic Composite" HFO Enamel Plus from Optident.
Old amalgam filling.
New composite resin restoration.
Molar start to finish
Before.
Ready to start. Under rubber dam.
Composite finished.
After.
Premolar
Old amalgam UL5.
Composite replacement.
Same tooth ten years later.
Replacement of Fractured Composite Restoration
Or replacement of leaking composite restorations with incrementally built up layers of composite, in dentine and enamel bands, to best restore the tooth to full function and aesthetics.
Failed Composite Restoration.
New Composite Restoration.