What is a Composite Resin White Filling? -Dr. Abhishek Bhadranna

Composite resin are tooth colored restoration of filling material, they are popularly used in most of the locations in the oral cavity. They are mainly preferred by the patient. Composite resins are made up of resin called Methyl methacrylate, they will be present in one or more form and whenever they are placed into the cavity and exposed to blue color light they start to polymerize. Polymerize in the sense they start to cross linked and becomes hard. There are different kinds of shades available in this composite resin. All our teeth if you look at closely there are slight changes in hue, shade, chroma, accordingly you have different composites that are available in the market. A dentist will look at your teeth match your shade accordingly then try to build up the same anatomy that has been lost due to you falling off or you getting a dental decay. Composites are one of the most popular among the dental filling material nowadays, they used in the esthetic zone that is the zone where people can see you and with this filling they will not even identify that some filling or corrections are done in your front teeth. Back teeth also provides good strength, so through research there are lot of materials coming in under the heading of composites.