Filling

Word of the week: Filling Welcome everybody to the dentistry related word of the week! Our feature word this week is ‘filling’. This word like many other words in English is a homonym and has different meanings and functions in different contexts. It’s often used as an adjective to describe food or a meal that makes you feel satisfied and unable to eat anything else; for example: ‘That sandwich was very filling, I can’t eat another bite!’ Or McDonald’s burgers are not very filling, you’ll be hungry again in a few minutes! Another way ‘filling’ is frequently used is to describe something that’s inside another object, or fills another object. To illustrate; the filling in a cheese sandwich is...cheese! In this sentence, filling is a noun. Dentistry uses filling in a similar way. When someone has a hole in their tooth (usually caused by too many sweets), they go to the the dentist to have a filling (a plastic or metal substance placed in the hole in tooth in order to cover it up). It usually stops the pain quite quickly. I have one filling on a back tooth, how many fillings do you have? Hopefully not too many!

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