Advantages

Disadvantages

• Mercury fillings or amalgam fillings can easily be removed and replaced with far more attractive coloured fillings that actually look like part of your tooth rather than a black hole
• If done properly in the right situation will last as well as anything else available for repairing teeth
• You can’t seem them, no one knows you have any fillings
• In most instances, you can eat on the filling straight away

• Composite fillings are much more technique sensitive than metal filling so it is very important to find a dentist who has a careful and exacting technique to maximise the life of the filling you are receiving
• Not recommended to be used in situations where the strength of a tooth is already compromised