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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

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Pre-treatment photo- fractured amalgam and leaking filling and crown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Post-treatment photo- Gold chewing surfaces for maximum durability.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In reviewing her options, this patient chose the longest lasting restoration available for her condition: onlays and crowns with gold chewing surfaces.\u00a0 The design of the gold margins toward the front of the mouth shows only a minimal display of metal.\u00a0 The patient is comfortably and confidently enjoying her fruits and nuts again.<\/p>\n

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Occlusal view of gold chewing surfaces on patient’s Left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Control of shape of restorations results in minimal gold display within smile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[51,52,53,55,57,62,91,92,103,119,123,129,132,135,223],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-and-preventive-dentistry","tag-atlanta-buckhead-dentist","tag-atlanta-comprehensive-dentist","tag-atlanta-dentist","tag-atlanta-general-dentist","tag-atlanta-pankey-dentist","tag-balancing-bite-forces","tag-conservative-dentistry","tag-cracked-tooth","tag-dds","tag-dr-caughey","tag-elizabeth-d-caughey","tag-feldspathic-porcelain","tag-fractured-filling","tag-general-dentistry","tag-restorative-dentistry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"\nHard raw-foods diet leads to fractured fillings; gold chewing surface sustains bite - www.caugheydds.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hard raw-foods diet leads to fractured fillings; gold chewing surface sustains bite - www.caugheydds.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"www.caugheydds.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-10T14:28:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-29T13:13:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pre-treatment-photo-fractured-amalgam-and-leaking-filling-and-crown-318x500.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elizabeth Caughey, DDS\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elizabeth Caughey, DDS\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elizabeth Caughey, DDS\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e615225fae8540ed1eb28cc76ca0f602\"},\"headline\":\"Hard raw-foods diet leads to fractured fillings; gold chewing surface sustains bite\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-10T14:28:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-29T13:13:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2014\/09\/10\/615-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pre-treatment-photo-fractured-amalgam-and-leaking-filling-and-crown-318x500.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atlanta Buckhead Dentist\",\"Atlanta Comprehensive Dentist\",\"Atlanta Dentist\",\"Atlanta General Dentist\",\"Atlanta Pankey Dentist\",\"Balancing bite forces\",\"Conservative dentistry\",\"Cracked tooth\",\"DDS\",\"Dr. Caughey\",\"Elizabeth D. 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