This morning I am encountering a very frequent quandary...tooth colored fillings that have small defects. The question is do I remove the fillings and replace them with nice new ones or are these fillings still functioning and perhaps I should leave them alone? In this case, X rays do not offer any help.
Although it may seem like a simple situation in which I should just re-do the filling..the problem is that anytime you drill into a tooth to replace a filling you might end up with a sensitive tooth afterwards and then I have a patient telling me that everything was just fine until I suggested this!!
Well in this case I decided that I should replace the fillings to prevent this from becoming a larger problem down the road....will report back on this next week.
