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How many fillings does the average person have?
The average American adult has three dental fillings.
What happens if you get too many cavities?
While your enamel can recover from small amounts of damage, cavities do irreversible harm to your smile. Once they form, they will continue growing and doing more damage to your enamel. Eventually, the damage is serious enough to cause infections that lead to pain and sensitivity, and put you at risk for losing teeth!
How much does it cost to get 7 cavities filled?
Most filling treatments hold stable prices in the following ranges: $50 to $150 for a single, silver amalgam filling. $90 to $250 for a single, tooth-colored composite filling. $250 to $4,500 for a single, cast-gold or porcelain filling.
What are the risks of cavities and tooth decay?
However, cavities and tooth decay can have serious and lasting complications, even for children who don’t have their permanent teeth yet. Complications of cavities may include: Pain. Tooth abscess. Swelling or pus around a tooth. Damage or broken teeth. Chewing problems. Positioning shifts of teeth after tooth loss.
What happens if you don’t treat your cavities?
Types of cavities. If cavities aren’t treated, they get larger and affect deeper layers of your teeth. They can lead to a severe toothache, infection and tooth loss. Regular dental visits and good brushing and flossing habits are your best protection against cavities and tooth decay.
How many cavities can be treated with drill and fill?
In those days, was not uncommon for a child to come from the dentist’s office with the news of five or six cavities, each of which would subsequently be treated and restored with silver-mercury amalgam. While I don’t mean this in a pejorative way, “drill-and-fill” was a common moniker for that process of treating cavities.
Do you need a filling for tooth decay?
Some dentists believe when decay is seen three-fourths of the way into enamel on an x-ray, then a filling is required. Others might wait for concrete evidence that decay has actually penetrated into dentin before making such a recommendation.