15 Myths and Facts About Cavities 7. Once a Tooth Is Treated, the Decaying Stops Fact. “You can get decay later on in other areas of the tooth, but the particular decay that was taken out is gone.” Once you get a cavity filled -- and if you maintain good brushing, flossing, and rinsing habits -- you typically won’t get decay in that spot again. Harms adds one caveat: “Sometimes a filling gets old and the margins where it meets the tooth begin to break down or pull away, and because you can’t reach it to clean it out, bacteria can get in there and decay can begin again.” "©2013, WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved"
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:21:25 +0000
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