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How Can Gold Fillings and Crowns Work When Gold Is So Soft?(0)

21 May 2010

Recently, a reader asked how gold could be used in the mouth when it is so soft.  It would seem like the high forces that occur doing chewing would alter the gold filling or crown.  Since composite fillings and amalgam fillings are so much harder, wouldn’t they last longer? Technically, the reader is correct.  If [...]

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