Tooth Whitening or Bleaching  

Tooth whitening or Bleaching can improve your smile and will make you want to smile more, which will make you a happier person, and more fun to be around. This can help improve friendships, relationships, and interactions with everyone you come across.

It can be also improving your self esteem and self confidence can also help you find better jobs, get promoted at your current job, or increase your productivity. Tooth whitening bleaching can change your life, and make you a much happier person.  However, not everyone's teeth will get as white as their favorite celebrity's with teeth whitening. It depends on many factors such as age, smoking, drinking behavior. Everyone has limits as to how whiteness of their teeth will improve.

There are various factors that affect to tooth discoloration and it also depends on the condition of patient teeth, oral health and lifestyle. On of the most common factor is the intaking of stain fluids like tea, coffee, wine , coca-cola, smoking. Changing in temperature of foods or drinks make the teeth to expand and contract, so enabling the penetration of stains into the teeth. Foods with slightly acidic open up the pores of enamel and allow stains to pass in. Teeth can be discolored by aging because the staining factors act upon the teeth for a longer period of time.

There are many choices of different whitening techniques, such as LED Cool light, Laser and Zoom. Allmost of them takes around 1-2 hours in one visit. Almost teeth whitening agents are CARBAMIDE PEROXIDE or HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2). Carbamide peroxide is made up of hydrogen peroxide and stabilizers such as urea, so it is longer acting more than just hydrogen peroxide alone. People who are trying to bleach out internal stains like tetracycline should make sure their whitening contains carbamide peroxide. It have different concentrations, so for the amount of time you should take:

- Less than 10-20% concentration, overnight usage are fine.
- More than 30% concentration, you should use around 30 minutes.

1. In-office bleaching The LED Cool light Tooth Whitening Procedure.

In just one visit, you can have a stunningly smile with our LED whitening techniques.
For Those who do not want to bother with bleaching try at home, we offer our Tooth Whitening by LED cool light. This can be performed entirely in our office. Our dentist start by cleaning each tooth to remove plaque. Then, dentist will protect your gums with a protective barrier before applies whitening gels onto your teeth. A light will activate the peroxide gel. The gel stays on the teeth for about 45 minutes to one hour, and then is rinsed off. The patient can still eat drink foods normally.

2. Laser whitening Procedure.

Laser Whitening is one of the most advanced, widely-accepted and effective tooth whitening methods in current use. It has transformed the appearance of thousands of patients. Even for those whose teeth are deeply stained, yellowed or gray in color, Laser Tooth Whitening offers outstanding results. It is more than just a cleaning, polishing or whitening of the tooth surface. Using powerful lasers, we are able to target stain molecules below the surface, within the structure of the tooth itself, oxidize them, and remove them completely.

3. Zoom tooth whitening  Procedure.

Zoom2 is product of Discus Dental Inc, USA who produce BriteSmile system. This is the leading whitening system in USA market. Zoom2! system use light wave ranging of 350-400nm to activate their patent gel to make your teeth whiter. The company claim approximately 7-8 shades different. This product is designed especially for their own systems.

	Treatment time	Results	Notes
	45 Minutes	Avg. 6-10 shades	- Immediate results - Long lasting - Less fading - Safe & Comfortable - Performed by a dentist
At Home Trays	7-14 Days	6 shades	- Self applied - By Trays - No Immediate result
Whitening Strips / Paint on Gel	7-30 Days	3 to 4 shades	- Unstable whitening - No Immediate results
Tooth Paste	1 month++	1 to 2 shades	- Tooth become discolor if stop using - For superfical stains only

4. At-Home Tooth Whitening

Tooth whitening kits take 2 - 3 weeks to accomplish the desired level of whiteness and it must be used under prescribtion of a dentist. For Whitening Gel method, your dentist need to check your teeth for cavities because the whitening gel can damage teeth with cavities in them. If cavities are found, dentist may repair it before performong Tooth Whitening processes. If no cavities are found, the teeth should be cleaned to remove plaque and take impression for custom tray, a mouth tray will be custom fitted. Then, dentist will provide a peroxide Tooth Whitening gel. The mouthtray should be filled with the Tooth Whitening gel and wear over night for 2 - 3 weeks.

In Office vs At Home Tooth Whitening

In Office whitening, dentist will put the bleach gels on your teeth, then shine a light on the teeth for about 1-2 hours. If you want it done instantly, you should do it in office. The actual process takes about 2 hours because there is some prep time involved. A common one for this process is, Cool light or Laser tooth whitening.

For teeth whitening at home, dentists will take impressions of your teeth, make Teeth whitening trays for you, and give you the whitening gel to fill the trays with. You put the gel into the trays, place the trays in your mouth, go to sleep (or some people may not want to leave them in that long) or leave them in for an hour or however long, and you are done. You will likely need to repeat this process over multiple days/nights, depending on what type of results you get.

Rest assured though, the trays are very comfortable, and are easily tolerated by most individuals. With this reason, many people prefer to do the in office teeth whitening to get the immediate results, then get the trays so they can touch up at home as they need to down the road.
 

EXTRINSIC stains are on the outer layer of the tooth, and many of them can be bleached out while INTRINSIC stains are INCORPORATED into the tooth, and it may or may not be able to bleach these stains out. If they do come out, it definitely will take much longer and much more bleaching (months vs weeks). These stains were incorporated into the tooth structure during tooth development, so they are not mere surface stains.

Frequently Asked Questions about Tooth Whitening