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Gallery Dental offers an alternative to silver fillings: white composite fillings. Composite fillings have many benefits that make them an excellent choice for our patients, like: Resembling the Natural Color of Your Tooth Requiring Less Tooth Preparation Providing Smaller Restorations Bonding Directly to the Tooth Enamel Being Completely Free of Mercury If you’re concerned about having silver fillings, then composite restorations are an excellent alternative....

At Gallery Dental, we have many people come to us for the removal of their old, metal mercury fillings. Silver fillings, or amalgam fillings, are made up of an alloy of silver, tin and mercury. The mercury content can make up as much as 50% of the metal alloy. Although there is a debate on the safety of mercury fillings among dental professionals throughout the world, many people feel that the fillings impact their health and function of the central nervous...