They make the person look like an honest face when it gleams or catches the light just so
Mostly because of cost and aesthetics. It’s actually still a great dental repair material in terms of durability. I have a gold capped molar that I elected and pushed my dentist for after doing research, had a good conversation about trade-offs in materials vs going blindly with a default. My mother in law also has most of her fillings done with gold. But obviously it’s expensive and you need a dentist that is used to working with gold which is less common. Most people do not want front facing teeth in gold.
way too expensive. plus now you can get a color matched ceramic crown in the same appointment you get a root canal. with cast metal fillings you have to send a mold to a foundry and wait for postage twice.
I don’t know about crowns, but when I looked into getting an implant, the gold option was actually cheaper than the colour matched one, because they very specifically do not have to do the work of colour matching the gold. But I’m sure it varies from place to place
god man i’d love that. my dad (bench jeweler) asked his dentist where he had his castings done, called the foundry and asked em to send it to him instead of the dentist, and he set a diamond in the face of it.
when he got to his appointment for the crown his dentist met him in the waiting room like “hey that crown hasn’t come in yet” and he just handed it to him. i wanna do the same thing with a titanium implant and a lumogarnet!
Muggings became very painful to go through.
Fashion is fashion.
Styles come and go with no rhyme or reason.
My guess is that people were overdoing it to the point they just started to look silly.
I don’t know if they fell out of favor, but I know of at least one that fell out because of a paint can tied to a banister.
I don’t think this is the reason by any means, but I overheard a guy who had gold fillings until he had to remove them all in order to receive cancer treatment. I don’t know what treatment required him to not have metal in his head.
Probably cant put your head in an MRI perhaps?
I’m not sure. I have one tooth that is capped with a silver metal, but not gold. My dad had a couple of gold caps.
My guess is that composite materials were cheaper and easier to work with. And lasted almost as well (my metal cap was done 25 years ago and is still holding up fine).
Too many death stares from the poor and downtrodden. And there are way more poor and downtrodden today, so flaunting wealth became uncomfortable.
Did they? I still see them.
Why did we switch to IVs when god created leeches?? /s
TLDR better, more “toothlike” materials were developed.
You must not visit the hood very often.
