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I want to know what do they do when you have a cavity filled?
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Skilled Rx: The tooth is numbed up. The decayed, damaged, infected tooth material is removed leaving only health tooth structure. A filling is placed to replace the damaged material that was removed.
Answered 1/7/2014
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