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The former makes me irrationally angry. Once you have fillings, it's apparently rather easy for more cavities to form right alongside them. As a teen, I had a dentist who drilled out every speck in a majority of my adult teeth. Since then, every cavity I've had for the rest of my adult life has been a cavity that formed adjacent to one of those fillings.

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I had the latter kind growing up. Moved away, and went to a dentist with a fancy name and close to my office. Huge mistake. I’ve lost track of how many they drilled. My mouth hasn’t been the same since.

I have a new dentist now who’s much like my previous one. My advice to anyone with a new dentist - if your new dentist suggests a bunch of new fillings when your track record differs dramatically, get a second opinion!

That's weird, I was terrible at brushing my teeth as a teenager and have 4 or 5 mercury fillings from then, once I started being a bet more hygeine conscious in college I've not had a cavity since and that was 20 years ago.

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