Filling up the tooth pits

The tooth pits and other smaller pits that can be found on the surface are providing good circumstances for decay. With filling up the pits they are closed from the buccal cavity. So, filling up the pits prevents decay and intends to protect the tooth.

Short after the gum penetration decay might start. After filling up the tooth pits bacteria causing decay can not stick to the tooth, it is easier to clean and endures protection against decay. This method can be applied at children with good mouth hygiene to avoid starting tooth decay.

Main purpose of tooth pit filling is to cover the surface subject to decay with protecting enamel stopping the damage. Surface of the grinders is full with pits. Fragments might stick into these pits and the generating bacteria encourage the decay. During this procedure the surface of teeth is covered with a liquid material which flows in the pits than it hardens.
At children it can be applied on the grinders, both on the milk teeth and the permanent teeth.
At children at whom the possibility of decay is high all the permanent teeth are recommended to be protected. If the surface of the grinders is dark brown, black or it has different color than the original teeth, but it is not decayed, this treatment shall be applied as soon as possible as it is totally painless and the teeth shall not be drilled. This treatment is much simpler than the tooth filling.