How many fillings do you have ?

How many fillings have you had and are they white or silver ? Can you see any when you smile ? Or are they hidden .

Tell me about them

Current filling count is 15. All twelve molars and three pre-molars have composite fillings. The ones in the lower wisdom teeth are the biggest ones as they were badly decayed.

The fillings look just like my natural teeth, it's almost impossible to tell any work was done. In the right light you can see minor differences in the shade of the actual tooth versus the filling but you'd have to be actively giving me a dental exam to notice it. If I was caught yawning or laughing with my mouth open you'd never notice them.

I have 3-5 (honestly can't remember) white fillings and most of those are from college. Once I gained personal autonomy with having my own car at 16 I started skipping out on the dentist because I hated the guy with a passion. After about 4 years of not going I ended up with a really bad toothache, and ended up going to this young, female dentist. I had several cavities in my molars, so for several weeks I would go in to get various fillings. One of the molars was really bad and needed filling both on the top and side, and I spent over 2 hours in the chair that day. Think I've had maybe one filling since then and also had one of the fillings on my molars redone.

Currently 14. 13 silver in 11 teeth (two teeth have two each) and 1 white. They're mostly invisible when I smile, but if you looked closely you could see a sliver of one in my upper left first molar. I've got a little of the gray shadow effect going on in a couple places too, but otherwise, I'd have to open for my fillings to be visible.

All mine are hidden, you can not see them when I smile. I have 7.

I have 3 which are all composite.

As I was brought up in the UK Drill and Fill era, its easier to say how many teeth haven't had any work done on them and that's 11. The rest have amalgam, white fillings or crowns, with only 2 extractions due to having a brace when younger and wisdom teeth are intact. I look after my teeth a lot better now than I did when younger regular check ups and plenty of flossing.

I have six (that I can tell with my tongue). I grew up in a household that didn't stress dental heath much. I have tried to do better with my children. Dental care is not cheap.

I have 8 silver fillings, 2 crowns, and about 4-5 white fillings. Bad teeth!

Well I had pretty much all my molars and pre-molars in amalgam. Not that I didn't brush well - I did. I lived in the country and was well water so didn't have fluoride. Probably had a lot to do with things - so in my younger years I spent many hours at the dentist. A lot of drilling and filling. 😕 Most those teeth ended up in root canal and crowns. But several left on fillings mostly on top - #5 MOD, #6 DO, 7 and 8 MIL, 9 DIL. 12, DO. 20 has an O. Thats it for fillings. 13 has MOD and will probably end up in a root canal cause been hurting but been toughing it out. Already have 8 RCT so don't want another. Lol But now these are composite so can't really see, unless you look close. Or on an x-ray.

All except for 4 of my molars have white fillings. I told my dentist I never wanted to have cavities again, so I get a prescription for a fluoride heavy toothpaste. So I haven't gotten any cavities in about 2 years.

Four--three white, one silver amalgam that's incredibly visible when I smile. Also one root canal and crown. I've thought about getting the amalgam one replaced, but am afraid it would then end up a root canal so I've held off.

12 of which 8 amalgam and 4 white. When smiling you can see those on 6th molars, particularly the lower ones, that are in amalgam. Front teeth have fillings in the internal side, and white

I have just two fillings. It must be due to the good water or brushing and flossing after every meal that my mother insisted on. Very limited candy was also the rule. Both fillings are composite (white) and are in the 12 year molars. The rest of my teeth were pulled out at age 12 so no problem with fillings there!! (just kidding lol!!)

Forgetting to brush my teeth could result In getting a spanking depending if a repeats of forgetfulness were close together. I almost always remembered to brush except on a rare occasion that I actually wanted to be spanked. Being spanked by my mother seemed to bring a certain closeness to her as she comforted me after the spanking.

Denise

I think theyre detecting my fillings in russia tbh ....i have a few too

I don't think I have an unfilled tooth in my head! Interestingly, my late sister, with the same genetic pedigree, same food, same upbringing, same cleaning and flossing regime, same everything except gender, did not have one filling.

I think I've got 11 fillings, 1 crown(with a filling in it!). All composite fillings. The amalgam fillings were all replaced 15 years ago or so.

I have two, both composites and had them done when I was a child. Now I have to get one of them replaced, you can see it if you look closely into my mouth.

All of my molars (2 are crowns) - bad genetics :-(

Just got one new in on the lower right Moler yesterday

@thedentist1900 amalgam or composite?

@thedentist1900 amalgam or composite?

Composite

I have 1 crown and 15 composite fillings. I spent hours and hours at the dentist chair.

I have realy bed teeth and 10 years ago all of my upper and lower molars were full of very visible and big amalgam fillings. Some were huge because some theeth have had a cavity several times (there were a cavity under the amalgam filling so I was under the drill and amalgam filling got bigger on the same tooth every time there was new decay)

Several years ago my dentist was changing my fillings so now I have composite ones. You can see them only if you have a very close look

I had two mercury fillings when I was 16. Nothing from then until about 10 years ago. I think I have 3 white fillings. Have lost 3 or 4 molars and had one root canal (the dentist who pulled the first molar I lost told me after that she could have saved it with a root canal). You can't tell when I smile. I'm diabetic and diabetes is hard on teeth. Also, the community I live in now (been here 17 years) does not put flouride in water. I think it's the first community I've lived in that doesn't.

All my life, I've had a hatred and fear of dentists. The place I go to now is really, really good. My dentist (female) is excellent and so is my hygienist (female). I go every 4 months for cleaning which is what my coverage allows. After having a couple abscesses, which hurt more than getting a finger bit off by a horse, I'm diligent about making sure it doesn't happen again.

Despite keeping my teeth and my whole inner and outer self squeaky clean and not eating a lot of sweet things, I still needed 3 small composite fillings. Our family is very fortunate to need only very little dental work other than cleanings. So listen up everyone, avoid sweets, floss and brush after each meal whenever possible, and get your teeth cleaned often!! I sound like my dentist!! lol. Denise

I am sure there was some sort of dentist claiming NHS money scam in the UK in the 1970's, pretty much all my friends had multiple fillings around that time, I had 8 fillings then and never required any more in the last 40 years, same with my friends, if our teeth were that bad surely we would continue to need fillings in later life

I am sure there was some sort of dentist claiming NHS money scam in the UK in the 1970's, pretty much all my friends had multiple fillings around that time, I had 8 fillings then and never required any more in the last 40 years, same with my friends, if our teeth were that bad surely we would continue to need fillings in later life

That isn't necessarily true.

If you have defective fusion of the cusps that are susceptible to caries that decay and you have them restored well, they are not likely to decay again. That means the more susceptible teeth were effectively taken out of the picture for future decay, hence not needing more restorations as the years went by. The teeth not susceptible to caries when you were younger are generally not susceptible when you are older either.

Hahaha... I never counted them. Lets just say there's more silver in my mouth than a silver mine. Maybe the mercury in the amalgam is why I'm as nuts as I am. Madder than a hatter....

I have two small ones, not visible at all.

All my back teeth (no. 6 and 7) have at least one filling.