Inlays and Onlays

Instead of the conventional fillings there is the possibility of producing prepared and prefabricated Inlays. The dentist prepares cavity and makes a precise impression of this one. Then the technician pours it out and produces an Inlay exactly suitable for this tooth. The finished Inlay is then glued into the cavity by the dentist. Where is the difference between Inlay and Onlay? Only the size! If there is already a lot of tooth substance missing, e.g. also a cusp, the reconstruction is called Onlay. According to the materials, processing and price, they both are identical.

The accuracy of fit is very high in this kind of restoration and thus a very high persistence is guaranteed. There is the possibility of gold Inlays and the tooth coloured ceramic or glass ionomer Inlays as well as the combination of noble metal and ceramic.
Gold Inlays are the most reliable dental fillings. The filling edges can be extremely thin adapted so that it optimally finishes with the edge. Gold itself is a very well-tolerated material. So if the durability of your fillings is the most important thing to you, you ought to choose golden Inlays. Gold is the material of choice , long clinical experience practically excludes side effects. Gold is not only an ageless elegant material but also a material whose precise processing is mastered in every detail by the dental technician. A lot of gold cast Inlays are 15 or even more years in the mouth of the patient. They are produced so that they exactly fit into the chewing surface of the antagonist tooth and they are delivered in a highly polished manner. The dentist applies the Inlay with reliable and also decades of proved dental cement. Thinly running out filling edges offer a perfect ending with the edge and bacteria and food debris have the slightest chances because gold is supposed to have an antibacterial effect. The material properties of gold alloys permit also a later polishing of the edges of the filling.

Ceramic Inlays for the lateral tooth area undoubtedly depict the aesthetically most beautiful alternative to amalgam. So if aesthetic is most important to you, ceramic Inlays are the right thing for you. The wish of the patients for tooth coloured, aesthetically optimal filling materials is getting ever greater. A denture that totally adapts to the natural teeth is the wishful thinking of a lot of patients. With the material porcelain these wishes for colouring and transparency can be realised. Ceramic is a powder that can be worked up like a paste when mixed with moisture and finally can be burnt like porcelain. Porcelain Inlays are undoubtedly the most beautiful alternative to amalgam. In contrast to gold, the ceramic Inlays are easy to break. Where aesthetic-cosmetic aspects have absolute priority and dental surface as well as interdental spaces have to be rebuilt, the indication area for porcelain fillings is located. These Inlays are not cemented but are pasted in, in a time-consuming procedure. Through a cauterisation of the dental enamel a tight linkage between Inlay and the tooth is attained. Since long-term experience with these adhesives are not available, an ideal mouth hygiene of the patient has to be presumed for long-term success. Practise nevertheless has shown that they cannot compete with the durability of gold Inlays, since porcelain is a rigid material and the thermal extension does not match our dental tissue, which means it comes to microfine cracks between the tooth and the Inlay, where caries can settle down after years.

Ceramic Inlays for the lateral tooth area undoubtedly depict the aesthetically most beautiful alternative to amalgam. So if aesthetic is most important to you, ceramic Inlays are the right thing for you. The wish of the patients for tooth coloured, aesthetically optimal filling materials is getting ever greater. A denture that totally adapts to the natural teeth is the wishful thinking of a lot of patients. With the material porcelain these wishes for colouring and transparency can be realised. Ceramic is a powder that can be worked up like a paste when mixed with moisture and finally can be burnt like porcelain. Porcelain Inlays are undoubtedly the most beautiful alternative to amalgam. In contrast to gold, the ceramic Inlays are easy to break. Where aesthetic-cosmetic aspects have absolute priority and dental surface as well as interdental spaces have to be rebuilt, the indication area for porcelain fillings is located. These Inlays are not cemented but are pasted in, in a time-consuming procedure. Through a cauterisation of the dental enamel a tight linkage between Inlay and the tooth is attained. Since long-term experience with these adhesives are not available, an ideal mouth hygiene of the patient has to be presumed for long-term success. Practise nevertheless has shown that they cannot compete with the durability of gold Inlays, since porcelain is a rigid material and the thermal extension does not match our dental tissue, which means it comes to microfine cracks between the tooth and the Inlay, where caries can settle down after years.