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Since amalgam is not used in our practice, only composite or a restoration with inlays can be considered as long-term filling material.

The great advantage of composite fillings is the enormous adhesive force on the tooth. By appropriate preparation with phosphoric acid and various adhesion promoters, the filling material forms an extremely strong bond with the tooth. This allows us to work very gently, only the carious parts of the tooth have to be removed and one can dispense with preparing certain "retention forms" and sacrificing more tooth than necessary.

Another great advantage of composite fillings is that they are tooth-colored and so do not immediately catch the eye like amalgam fillings, which become black over the years due to oxidation.

If the tooth defect is larger, the most elegant solution to repair the tooth is a so-called inlay, or “inlay filling”. The dentist takes an impression of the tooth with a special silicone impression and a high-precision plaster model is created from this in the dental laboratory. The dental technician then produces the missing piece of tooth on this model and the dentist only has to cement or glue it in. Inlays have an excellent accuracy of fit and are the best way to restore tooth holes according to today's standards. All-ceramic or gold can be used as the material.