Dental Services: St. Petersburg Dental Center/Florida



Restoring your natural smile. The advances in modern dental materials and techniques enables St. Petersburg Dental Center more ways to create pleasing, natural-looking smiles. With the development of materials such as ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth, patients have several choices when selecting materials to repair missing, worn, damage or decayed teeth. These new materials have not eliminated the usefulness of more traditional dental materials, such as gold, base metal alloys and dental amalgam. That’s because the strength and durability of traditional dental materials continue to make them useful for situations, such as fillings in the back teeth where chewing forces are greatest. There are two types of dental restorations: direct and indirect. Direct restorations are fillings placed immediately into a prepared cavity in a single visit. They include dental amalgam, glass ionomers, resin ionomers and some resin composite fillings. We prepare the tooth, place the filling and adjust it during one appointment. Indirect restorations generally require two or more visits. They include inlays, onlays, veneers, crowns and bridges fabricated with gold, base metal alloys, ceramics or composites. During the first visit, we prepare the tooth and make an impression of the area to be restored. The impression is sent to our laboratory, which creates the dental restoration. At the next appointment, we cement the restoration into the prepared cavity and adjust it as needed. Click here to request an appointment online, or call an office near you.		Dental Care Our Offices Northeast St. Petersburg 727-521-1818 7300 4th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 Directions on Google Maps Feather Sound / Carillon 727-572-4063 2685 Ulmerton Road, Suite 103, Clearwater, FL 33762 Directions on Google Maps Emergencies and Walk-ins Always Welcome

The advances in modern dental materials and techniques enables St. Petersburg Dental Center more ways to create pleasing, natural-looking smiles. With the development of materials such as ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth, patients have several choices when selecting materials to repair missing, worn, damage or decayed teeth.

These new materials have not eliminated the usefulness of more traditional dental materials, such as gold, base metal alloys and dental amalgam. That’s because the strength and durability of traditional dental materials continue to make them useful for situations, such as fillings in the back teeth where chewing forces are greatest.

There are two types of dental restorations: direct and indirect.

Direct restorations are fillings placed immediately into a prepared cavity in a single visit. They include dental amalgam, glass ionomers, resin ionomers and some resin composite fillings. We prepare the tooth, place the filling and adjust it during one appointment.

Indirect restorations generally require two or more visits. They include inlays, onlays, veneers, crowns and bridges fabricated with gold, base metal alloys, ceramics or composites. During the first visit, we prepare the tooth and make an impression of the area to be restored. The impression is sent to our laboratory, which creates the dental restoration. At the next appointment, we cement the restoration into the prepared cavity and adjust it as needed.

Click here to request an appointment online, or call an office near you.