Light Cure Composite Filling

The most up to date solution to restore heavily injured, decayed teeth or enamel defects is the light –curing composite filling material/ total bonding that provides an ideal mechanical and esthetic solution. This is why the treatment carried out with the help of this technology is called tooth restoration.

A common disadvantage of all the pre-exsisting filling materials was that they needed to be fixed mechanically in the cavity. It wasn’t enough to simply eliminate the decayed material, a part of the heathy tooth substance also needed to be removed in order to provide an anchorage for the filling. When using total bonding, there is no need to sacrifice the healthy tooth substance by milling since this technology creates a very strong chemical bond (instead of a mechanical one) between the tooth and the filling.

Besides this, the sixth generation of light-curing fillings is also characterized by a high level of:

• abrasion resistance

• pressure resistance

• tensile strength