
Usually, when you’re getting a dental filling, it isn’t something you’re doing by choice. What you can choose, however, is what kind of filling you get. Most people have seen the metallic amalgam fillings that are sometimes used on molars, but modern restorative dentists tend to prefer composite resin for their fillings. If you want to know why that is, here’s the difference between composite fillings and amalgams, and why you should choose the former.
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