Tips For Teeth Whitening

Choosing professional teeth whitening system as a way to whiten your teeth is the fastest route to get immediate result of lightening your teeth. The instant display of a set of sparkling white teeth after less than an hour of  teeth bleaching procedure performed by your dentist will make most dental patients ooze with amazement.

However, we must stress that some of the degree of dramatic tooth color change achieved immediately after at-office teeth whitening procedure is temporary due to the dehydration effect of the tooth.  As the tooth to be whitened is isolated during the tooth whitening treatment, the corresponding tooth will become desiccated in as short as 30 minutes.  Even some of the teeth bleaching compounds used by your dentist in this cosmetic dentistry will be non-hydrous compounds  even though they might look like they are very “wet”.

This situation  further prolongs the dehydration of the tooth and contributes a greater degree to the final tooth whitening procedure result. Bear in mind that this lightening effect is temporary and once the tooth become hydrated again (through saliva),  its color will return to a darker shade.

Therefore, the immediate dramatic whiteness degree of your teeth that are bleached during the in-office treatment will become less “white” after a few days when the peroxide bleached teeth are being hydrated.

Don’t get the impression that the hydrogen peroxide compound that is being used in the teeth whitening treatment does not work ;  it is only that the whiteness change should be compared after a few days of treatment.

For this reason too that your dentist would ask you to follow up the professional treatment done at the clinic with at-home teeth whitening system. Such a course will give the whitened teeth a higher degree of whiteness as the teeth will be in contact with the peroxide bleaching agent over the course of a few days/weeks when you perform the at-home whitening system and also made up for any whiteness fading as the teeth regain its hydration.

Due to the difficulties of performing teeth isolation for the teeth at the back of the mouth,  the back teeth might not be treated in the clinic.  Therefore, at-home teeth whitening system also enables the untreated back teeth to lighten and provide a closer white shade to the professional treated teeth at the clinic, giving us a more balance shading of mouthful white teeth.