This is the normal practice for these type of fillings. You can't pack them in like amalgam and they don't hold their shape well until cured. You wrote:
________________________________ From: Cinder Ella [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Tooth Pain The band was a metal form he put around my teeth much like a mold so he could fill it up with filling. When the tooth was filled he took the band off and shaped the tooth.

