Inlays & Onlays in Palm Beach Gardens, FL

There is a gap in the middle of restorative dentistry: cavities too large for a filling to hold reliably, but nowhere near large enough to justify grinding a healthy tooth down for a crown. Inlays and onlays live in that gap, restoring the chewing surface with a custom-milled piece bonded into place while the sound walls of the tooth stay where they are.

At Bluewater Dental, our Palm Beach Gardens office mills these in porcelain or composite to fit the cavity exactly, which is why they outlast a large filling under years of chewing. Where decay has undermined the walls as well, a crown is the more durable answer and we will explain why.