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Tooth Whitening: What Its All About

Exactly what is this new fad all about? What's all the commotion going on about this new "cosmetic" dentistry discovery? Well apparently, this "new" craft has actaully been around, and evolving for the past 28-30 years ... and from the time of its breakthrough to now, very much indeed HAS changed about it.

Essentially, there are 2 methods by which people can go through teeth whitening procedures: either with your dentist at his office, or right by yourself at home. Of course, you can choose to employ a combination of these 2 methods but basically, these are it.

With the first, in-office treatments involve your dentist making a mold of your teeth for you; which he then sends to a lab that creates out of the mold a mouthpice that is custom made to you. This takes between 5-10 days.

When your mouthpiece is ready, you would then have to go back to your dental clinic for your 2nd session where your mouthpiece, containing a gel with a low concentration of peroxide, would be inserted into your mouth and would have to remain there for a duration of about 1-2 hours. You would need to have about 3-4 sessions just like this.

In the past 10 years though, there has been a lot of advancement in the field of in-office treaments for tooth whitening. Now, there is such a thing known as Laser/Power/Argon Bleaching where there is no need for a mouthpiece. Instead, the whitening agent is painted directly onto your teeth and made to stay there for about an hour. In this while, you sit on your dentist's chair with your mouth agape while a special light is shined onto the paste applied on your teeth, thus causing a chemical reaction between the argon in the light and the peroxide in the paste to complete the bleaching process.

After this procedure, the dentist will usually prescribe on eof two things: either to purchase certain over-the-counter products to help maintain the bleach in your teeth; or a re-visit to him for a "touch up" on the current job.

But as mentioned earlier, while the procedures just described above have been proven successful, they can also be very costly. Thus, thanks to advancing technology, there have been new ways devised to gain such results on your teeth using less expensive means. These are known as the home teeth whitening treatments that make it possible to achieve the same kind of whiteness in your teeth as you would achieve from your dentist's chair.

So, in this light, we find 3 different types of home-teeth whitening systems available in the market:

1 Brush-on whitening -- All you have to do is brush on the formula and leave on your teeth overnight. Although effective as well, this procedure has 2 disadvantages. The 1st: because these formulas' effectivity rely on your ability to keep the solution you brushed onto your teeth dry for the prescribed duration of time, failing to do so could end up in an uneven whitening job. Not nice. The 2nd disadvantage is that because of that level of difficulty to keep the formula dry on your teeth through the night, labs have mixed a certain amount of alcohol into these products to help dry out the formula in your mouth. The thing is, alcohol has an adverse effect on the gums and therefore causes bad breath. Again, not good.

2 Whitening Strips --- The application of this particular treatment is swift and easy. Unfortunately so are the reults achieved. Basiclaly, this treatment relies on your ability to cover with these strips, all the grooves and recessess of each tooth in your mouth. What are the chances of that??? If not done well, again, you will have that uneven bleach.

3 Trays with bleaching gels -- This is said to be the most affordable and efficient tooth whitening system available over-the-counter. This system makes use of the same bleaching gel used in your dentist's office. But when you purchse these bleaching products from retail outlets, you should make sure to choose one with a concentration of at least 21% because most of these products have been sitting on the shelf for long periods of time causing their concentration levels to wane.

So there, a vast layout of options to choose from when it comes to making the wish of whiter teeth come true for you. But before anything, be sure to consult your dentist about which procedure is the best for YOU. We all have different teeth, with different conditions. If you ask your personal dental care professional, he will know best.

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