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:

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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.