{"id":615,"date":"2014-09-10T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caugheydds.com\/newsite\/?p=615"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T13:13:25","slug":"615-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard raw-foods diet leads to fractured fillings; gold chewing surface sustains bite"},"content":{"rendered":"
Conservative dentistry and naturally sustaining lifestyles go together, and as such, many of the people attracted to our practice focus on their nutrition and overall health.\u00a0 This patient eats a strict raw-foods diet, including very hard foods like raw carrots and almonds.\u00a0 Though amalgam filling material has a compressive strength (aka, ability to resist biting pressure) > 300 MPa, compared to that of 250 for natural tooth material, the patient was still able to break the filling through regular chewing.<\/p>\n