Fillings

The most common method of treating caries is to provide a filling. The table below shows data on fillings made from all materials available to dentists practising within the NHS. The most common material used is silver amalgam.

Fillings; year ending March
		2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
No. of fillings	000's	2,683	2,634	2,479	2,387	2,259
Cost of fillings	£000's	33,115	33,995	32,950	32,885	32,278
Item of service fees	%	26.1	25.5	25.3	24.8	24.1
Fillings per 100 courses of treatment; year ending March
		2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Scotland		81.3	78.7	75.9	73.0	70.1
Argyll & Clyde		82.9	80.3	76.3	73.2	72.2
Ayrshire & Arran		84.1	79.9	77.2	72.7	69.7
Borders		62.9	61.4	60.7	56.9	56.5
Dumfries & Galloway		72.3	71.4	65.6	60.1	58.8
Fife		74.5	71.1	69.0	65.8	61.9
Forth Valley		80.9	77.1	72.4	70.0	67.8
Grampian		67.9	64.8	62.7	61.7	60.5
Greater Glasgow		94.5	93.5	90.4	87.6	82.6
Highland		91.6	86.1	73.7	73.2	77.5
Lanarkshire		93.1	89.9	88.2	83.9	80.9
Lothian		73.9	71.4	68.5	65.0	61.5
Orkney		59.7	63.7	118.6	103.8	0.0
Shetland		47.9	56.3	51.6	47.9	42.5
Tayside		78.2	74.3	72.1	69.2	64.6
Western Isles		92.7	95.8	89.6	84.8	76.5