Budapest Dental Online
Dental Glossary
Inlay
A laboratory made internal filling, cemented or bonded into a tooth. Can be made of porcelain. Gold inlays are rarely used any more, although they were at one time the treatment of choice in dentistry, because they tended to put cracks in teeth. We generally find onlays a better choice for high quality, tooth-conservative dentistry. Porcelain inlays seem to have a good track record to date; Dr. Groh has two of them in his teeth.