If you decide to do a filling, the work can almost always be done in one visit. Dr. Parsa will create a white filling that matches your tooth colour and then give you ‘freezing’ (or local anesthetic), so you don’t feel any pain. Your comfort is of upmost importance at Yankee Valley Dental. She then takes out all traces of the cavity or decayed tooth material and cleans the affected area. If the decay is near the root, Dr. Parsa may put in a liner to protect the nerve.
She will then insert the filling material in thin layers to rebuild the structure of your tooth. A special light, called a Blue Dental Curing Light, is used to set the filling material and make it hard. In the last steps, Dr. Parsa will adjust your bite and polish the filling to make sure that your bite fit together nicely and that you don’t have any rough areas or pain points.