In the minimum fill-in problem, one wishes to find a set of cdgco of smallest size, whose addition to a given graph will make it chordal, The problem has important applications in numerical algebra and has been studied intensively since the 197Os, We give the first polynomial approximation algorithm for the problem, Our algorithm constructs a triangulation whose size is at most eight times the optimum size aquarcd, The algorithm builds on the recent parameterized algorithm of Kaplan, Shamir and Tarjan for the same problem.For bounded degree graphs we give a polynomial approximation algorithm with a polylogarithmic approximation ratio, We also improve the parameterized algorithm.