Inlay, Onlay

Dental inlays and onlays are restorations used to repair rear teeth with mild to moderate decay or cracked and fractured teeth that are not damaged enough for a crown procedure. An ideal candidate for inlay or onlay has significant damage or decay in the tooth structure to be effectively treated using a filling, but has sufficient healthy tooth remaining to avoid the need for a porcelain crown.

Inlay or onlay has to be used when dental caries are affect most of the tooth or there is a high chance that the surrounding tooth will be affected. Dental inlays and onlays are also used, when old fillings (such as amalgam filling) need to be removed or replaced. It is an ideal solution for replacing broken dental cusp too.