When first meeting a person, a good smile can impress and create a good first impression. This isn’t possible when you have teeth with yellow or brown stains on them. Tooth whitening is the best way you can get back that feeling that only a great looking set of teeth can give you. Basically, the whitening of the teeth will reverse the teeth discoloration process, revealing the white enamel, by bleaching the teeth.
Usually teeth become darker, as you use products that contain caffeine (cola, coffee or tea) or tobacco. Another product that can cause the discoloration of the teeth is antibiotic medication. Age is another factor that causes this problem. As far as cosmetic dentistry procedures go, teeth whitening is the most popular one. 19 out of 20 people that get teeth whitening will see visible positive results.
With teeth whitening, you have more than one option at your disposal. You can use whitening toothpastes, you can do home bleaching or you can visit a dentist and get a professional bleaching. The professional bleaching is the option that is the most effective and the quickest, but it will also cost you more. You need a minimum of two visits to the dentist for this procedure.
Another advantage is that the effects will last longer than those from the other procedures. It works with the help of a bleaching agent that is applied on the teeth, without harming the gums. Once the dentist applies the agent to the teeth, he sometimes uses additional procedures to hurry the agent’s action. The duration of such a treatment is between half an hour and an hour.
Home bleaching is the second thing you can do to whiten your teeth. A dentist or a pharmacist can sell you a home bleaching kit, which contains a solution or gel which contains hydrogen peroxide. This gel should be applied on the enamel of the tooth. The kit usually comes with a mouth guard, on which you apply the gel or solution. The treatment’s duration and the use frequency can vary from one kit to another. For example, there are overnight treatments which will take less time to work.
As for the last option, whitening toothpaste, this one doesn’t modify the color of the teeth as much as it works to get rid of the stains, with the help of some polishing agents. A dentist can give you better advice over which of these procedures works best, depending on your teeth and your needs.
