How many fillings do you have ?

Got something like 7 fillings. most are composite.

few silver ones from childhood

At the age of 36, I don't have any fillings. I was very fortunate to inherit good dental genes, I guess. I do brush twice daily and floss (when I remember), but I know part of it also has to be genetic.

1. It’s silver and you can see it when I open my mouth.

My earliest fillings were $4 each, I used to go to his office after school. Later in life, I started to get the new white fillings, I don't recall their price but today my fillings are $400 each.

To this date; I still don't take an injection to kill the pain during fillings. I believe its because with my generation during the 1950s was used to dentist saying "just sit there, and I will let you know when I'm done".. Those old drills looked like the belts reminded me of guitar strings driving them, and they had pleanty of joints, and pulleys to try to make them as manoverable as the human arm. By the way, NO water came out to cool the drilling. You could smell the burning of the tooth and even see what looked like smoke coming from your tooth, as it excaped from your mouth. As a boy, I could only see what he was doing by looking at the reflection coming from his thick eyeglasses.

By the way, you didn't lay down like you do today, you sat in a chair (much like a barber chair of the time). it had 2 pads that looked like ear muffs attached to seat's back. They met the back of your head, as you were put in the reclining position. All you could do was firmly squeezed the cast iron arm rest, as he slowly drilled away and you simply sat there, and endured. In N Y City the school made you go to the dentist every 6 months. Back in those days floride was absent in the tooth paste, most kids needed aprox 4 fillings every 6 months.

When the treatment was over (1 filling per week) you were given two $10. bills to pay the dentist.....Looking at the those $10s they seemed like a lot more than todays $100s !

Zero. I have never had a cavity. At 44 this is particularly handy-dandy, as I am absolutely terrified of the dentist.

I have 28! They are all white and beautiful.

Not a single one. I am 42, have all my teeth (including my wisdom ones) and have never had a single cavity.

I had some fillings when I still had my deciduous teeth. With my permanent teeth I never had any cavity. This way I can "enjoy" simple check-up and dental cleaning when visiting the dentist.

I have several amalgam fillings from when I was a lad in the 1980s, plus 1 gold crown, from my 20s, and 1 white “on lay” whatever that is, more recently

I have several amalgam fillings from when I was a lad in the 1980s, plus 1 gold crown, from my 20s, and 1 white “on lay” whatever that is, more recently

You can think of an onlay (NOT on lay) as a short crown that covers the biting areas but does not cover all the inside and outside surfaces.

Zero here.

Three implants and the rest are crowns

It looks like I’m still in the lead with 28 white fillings. Hehe. All but four.

I have nearly all molars filled, except two (white) crowns.

Most of the fillings were done when I was a teenager.

This time it was pretty common to go to the regular checkup and to leave the dentist office with some new shiny amalgam fillings.

These days it was very embarrasing for me to laugh. My mouth was full of amalgam, and I was not proud of it.

It was a awkward imagination that others will see the fillings and will imagine, how I sat helpless in the dental chair.

Meanwhile various silver fillings were replaced with composite, but 6-7 molars are still filled with amalgam.

Just added an extra two to my set for a goal of 6 I believe. Two new composites in my front buckles

I have three!

None never needed one

I have two on the side of my bottom molars. They aren’t visible when I smile.

I have a mouthful of amalgam and now plastic but all my teeth. I get cleaning more often than. insurance allows (I go every 6 mo). But I have been told that my teeth were highly susceptible to decay. I am now 74 and still have all my original equipment in my mouth. If I yawn, only then can you see my monument to dental science.

I grew up in Brantford Ont where the floride was added as part of study. The follow up was through the school where we saw the study dentist at least once a year. We were the experimental group paired with Stratford Ont. what which has natural floride in the water.

btw I am a very nervous and tense patient

I have just one 15+ year old occlusal composite on a back molar.

One less than I had before lockdown. Hopefully it won't be too long before it is possible to see a dentist again.

Currently have 4 filings, but likely to require a few more.

All composites, but one filling has been done at least twice due to poor dental work the first time, so I do fear that tooth maybe beyond saving.

Four total, all silver.

I’m going in two weeks to hopefully add to my totals. Have 6 now all silver. I’d love to have every molar and premolar

I only have four left now: 3 silver amalgam that are quite old and one white acrylic one. I have 5 crowns that had been fillings at one time. Had to have two crowns done on different teeth in the last seven months so those two fillings went away.

At two one on the incisor on my left bottom side and the tooth right behind it.

I've had two, but one was in a baby tooth that fell out. I have one amalgam filling on one of my back molars, but nothing else.

I have 8 fillings. 2 are white, the rest are silver

Not a single one. I've never had a single cavity in my entire life. I also still have my thirty-two teeth.

Never had one and dont plan on any either