Tooth Whitening Products

Over the counter kits
Over the counter (OTC) rates are available at most major pharmacies throughout the UK. Usually they contain rubber mouth tray(forms that are about the same shape as the teeth) and the tube of bleaching gel.

After a few presses of gel in the opening of the subjects that you put on your teeth for about 30 minutes at a time. The bleaching ingredient in the gel is usually the hydrogen peroxide. OTC kits contain only weakly hydrogen peroxide, and the tendency is not so effective that the strongest products, which can be used by the dentist.

Using of bleaching gel, it may not apply to certain types of discolouration, such as through the fillings in metal or damaged blood vessels within a tooth. Ask your dentist before using any of these kits, because it can be a more effective way to achieve the results that you are looking for.

Professional Tooth Bleaching
There are several possibilities that the dentist can bleach the teeth. They can be divided into external technical (where chlorine water is on the outer side of the teeth) and the technical internal (where the chlorine water is within the tooth).

External bleaching
This means that the color of the teeth will be facilitated by the freezing of money laundering and outside (external) of the surface of the teeth. Once more with tooth bleaching gel, it may not apply to certain types of dicolouration, such as through the fillings in metal or damaged blood vessels within a tooth. There are three ways of tooth bleaching.

- "Home" tooth bleaching - It is similar to the over-the-counter kits, but with two main differences. Firstly, your dentist makes the rubber mouth trays so that they fit your teeth precisely, and secondly, the bleaching gel is stronger so it tends to be more effective. Your dentist will give you tubes of bleaching gel and instructions on how to put the gel in the mouth trays. You will need to wear the mouth trays for at least a few hours each day. It may take a few weeks to achieve the colour that you want. Your dentist will give you detailed instructions.

-In the dental surgery - "power" or "laser" bleaching. Your dentist can be a rubber seal around your teeth to protect gums, depending on the concentration of chloride used. Then, the freezing of money laundering is to the teeth and a special light is used. This light enhances the process of money laundering. The appointment is between one and two hours.

-Combined bleaching - this may also be known as "power" bleaching - both the home and surgery bleaching are used in combination to obtain the desired result. The home bleaching stage may occur before or after surgery treatment - this depends on the type of product used. Your dentist will give you instructions.

Internal Bleaching
This means that the color of the teeth is clarified by adding a bleaching product, within the teeth. Blanchissement internal allowed not to the teeth, which were successfully root. This means that the blood vessels and nerves, the inside of the teeth were filled with a rubber.

In chlorinated water a tooth in this way, the dentist drilled a hole, and the product in the bleaching it (if it is a front tooth, the hole is at the back, so that you can not see). The holes are sealed with a temporary filling, with the chlorine water, the inside of the teeth. The procedure is without risk, because no nerve of the tooth.

They will return to your dentist about a week later, that temporary filling and the use of chlorinated water. If you satisfied with the new shadow, the dentist will fill the hole with a dental filling color. Sometimes the color is not lighten enough , and the process must be repeated. Occasionally, internal bleaching should be read in conjunction with other techniques, which knows about the desired effect.