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Cavity on an already filled tooth
I had cavity in my molar and got it fixed 2 years back , and I've recently noticed that cavity has come again on the same tooth where the filling is not there , wt will b the procedure to repair The tooth ?? Will the filling be taken out and redone again ?
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Hi, it depends on clinical examination and xray
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It would have been better if i could see a picture of ur tooth, but most likely if it is not very close to the old filling we can repair it with a new filling, but if it is quiet close to your previous filling then we need to redo the old filling along with removing the new caries n doing the entire filling again.
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It depends on size and extent of cavity if to do repeat filling, another separate filling or maybe a root canal also.
All depends on clinical examination and x ray.
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if the filling is fine then it will not be taken out , the cavity may be filled separately, but if the deacay is part of the previous filling then the whole filling needs to be replaced.
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