A. Hi many thanks for your enquiry, this is a very common problem when replacing silver fillings for white fillings. the silver material sometimes stains the tooth tissue, so even once the silver material is removed the tooth can appear grey, the only option then is for the dentist to accept this as a comprimise and fill the tooth, this however does mean the tooth may still look grey even with a white filling. the other option is to drill the tooth deep enough until all the stained tooth tissue is removed. this will then resolve the problem once filled but can result in the tooth needing extra treatment due to the deep drilling such as root canal treatment and crown work in the future.

The other option would be to leave the silver fillings and crown the teeth using the silver material as cores for the crowns. this would ensure that the colour of the crowns woul be as white as you wanted with no stained tooth tissue shining through.

the best thing would be to seek the advice of a cosmetic dentist.

Dr Kailesh Solanki
Kissdental