Commonly known as “white” filling, this tooth-coloured plastic filling is the most used dental material for restoring small cavities. The fundamental composition of this material is mixture of resin matrix like bisphenol A-glycidyl methacrylate (BISGMA) or urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) and filler like silica. With different combination of these ingredients, composite resin can be flowable or stiff packable.
Dental composite resins also come in many different shades and this allows us to match the colour of the resin with your tooth in case the filling is in high aesthetic zone. This material requires to stick/ bond with the tooth structure and for generally which dental bonding agents are used.