Why do you get fillings?

what are fillings for?!?!?!?!?!?!

Why do you get fillings?
Dental fillings are used to repair your teeth that have been damaged or broken. If done correctly, your filling should prevent future deterioration of your teeth (cavities).
Reply:A chip in the tooth.
Reply:for cavities, you big silly!!!!
Reply:it fills in the deep crevasse's in your teeth the place were you toothbrush can reach that is were you get most of the cavities. in those deep caresses
Reply:filling in holes in you're teeth where food or somthing has rotten it away cus you don't brush ya teeth properly!
Reply:Because if you not good taken care of your teeth, and you will get it, like brush tooth daily, and carefully, to make those germ that stuck in some of the little spot in your teeth!
Reply:Your cavities are "filled" to protect you from infection. If an infection gets in your tooth, it can go to your gums, and continue to your jaw and so forth. It is a dentists way of protection from a nasty problem.
Reply:its to fill a cavity(aka soft spot) in your tooth.... you get sugar and food and stuff in your teeth that eat away at your enamel. if it breaks thru the enamel and gets down into the root, you get a nasty, VERY PAINFUL infection called an abcess. they either have to pull the tooth, or do a root canal( which really sucks and is expensive b/c you have to get a crown to fit over that tooth) by catching a cavity early, you can prevent that and how they do that is to fill it.... they drill out the part that got soft and put a filling in there to even your tooth back out and protect it from getting stuff down in the tooth... in the long run, its the best thing to do for a tooth that has a cavity. besides saving yourself pain(lots of pain) your also saving yourself time and money( lots of money) and your smile!!
Reply:FILLINGS ARE A COVERING OF THE TOOTH BECAUSE THE DENTIST HAS DISCOVERED THE TOOTH HAS TOOTH DECAY, SO THEY FILL SCRAP ALL THE DECAY OUT AND FILL THE TOOTH WITH A FILLING TO STOP FURTHER DECAY....
Reply:well they are cheaper than a new tooth. its for your teeth they drill out the bad stuff and fill it with tooth like material so your teeth won't go bad and they look pretty.
Reply:cavities are holes in the teeth and the only thing that can be done is to fill it hence the word fillings.
Reply:to prevent further decay

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