Amalgam or Composite Fillings

Composite all the way for me

I definitely prefer amalgam fillings.

I just had a crown replaced, and he used Zirconia. Apparently it's the latest material, with the durability of gold at a much lower cost. it is also white, like composite.

I have five crowns and am about to get a sixth shortly as I broke my left lower wisdom tooth. Three of the crowns are gold, done years ago when it was not terribly expensive, and the other two (and what will be the third) are zirconia. I definitely prefer the zirconia. It seems to involve less prep, is incredibly durable and is color matched. Looking back, if zirconia had been an option when I got the three gold crowns, I would have gotten zirconia. Plus, they can pass X-Rays where as the gold crowns just look like white blobs on the film.

Amalgams on molars and premolars. Composite on anterior teeth.