Teeth whitening for a brighter smile - what are your options?

There are several methods of teeth whitening:

(1.) Home whitening technical

(2.) Dental office whitening

(3.) Whitening toothpastes

Home bleaching

Peroxide in concentrations of 10 or 20% carbamide loads in custom made trays to adapt to the teeth. The trays are exact connection to the mouth of an individual and help hold the bleaching gel in close contact with the surface of the teeth to be bleached. It's carrying trays during the night of 4 to 5 nights for teeth lighten up by 2-3 tones.

The process can be repeated within 6 months or a year, when necessary, using the same trays, coverage with a new syringe gel.

It takes 2 visits to the dentist. On the first visit to the dentist you would teeth impressions to manufacture trays. In the second visit could delete trays with tube of whitening gels. Comparison highlights the existing shadow of teeth at a later date.

As a side effect teeth can be a little sensitive temporarily while bleaching is doing and then usually fairly quick setting. A desensitization paste or mouthwash can be used to minimize the inconvenience.

Dental office whitening

In this 35% hydrogen peroxide is used. It is not safe to use this high concentration at home. Considerable change in colour is achieved in a single visit to the dentist using this technique.

Dentist that isolate the teeth using a gum barrier to protect the fabric soft sensitive to come into contact with the gel. A layer of whitening gel is applied to the teeth and stay for about 12 - 15 minutes.Teeth, Activator light can be used to obtain the effect of the gel. The gel is then deleted and the process is repeated 2-3 times as necessary. Teeth may be temporarily sensitive but it will clarify the shadow in a single visit.

Whitening toothpastes

These are commercially available pastas that contain mild abrasive surface stains to contagious but do not have any active content acting chemically to lighten teeth.
Therefore it is not asset laundering.

Before any method of whitening is vital teeth cleaning and polished to remove any obvious tartar. Where teeth have bands of yellow greenish due to staining tetracycline or opaque calcareous bands/white spots due to fluorosis, bleaching may not be very effective. In these cases the teeth should be plated or crowned to mask discoloration.

When a single tooth has darkened because of dead or dying tissue inside, can be relieved by a different method of individual teeth whitening. This tooth should be the first root treated and then full of a bleaching agent for a couple of weeks to get the desired results.

Whatever cause discoloration in teeth there usually is something that a dentist can help you with to get your shiny smile and feel confidence.

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John Mantel provides Manchester teeth whitening and has extensive experience in guided bone regeneration techniques and bone grafting procedures. John also lectures internationally on dentistry of implant, specialized in a Dental Hospital in Manchester.