Hollywood smile: seduction is in the white!

Real promise of seduction and health, have a nice smile inevitably white teeth. However, various factors to hereditary (natural coloring or aging of the tooth), pathological (taking tetracycline during the period of tooth formation) or from the lifestyle (drinking coffee, tea, tobacco, wine, antidepressants ...) sometimes make the stain teeth ineffective. Tooth whitening becomes perfectly justifiable.

The money in question

This simple aesthetics of the teeth used to lighten discoloration of enamel and dentin by the use of a gel containing hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide) or carbamide peroxide. Whether in office or at home, no tooth whitening should be performed without first performing a thorough oral assessment by a dentist to verify the absence of cons-indications (untreated caries, devitalized teeth, weak enamel, gum irritation ...) and an effective scaling.

The professional whitening

There are two type of service professional teeth whitening: bleaching "in chambers" or in a specialized center laundering and one called "ambulatory" or at home or at work.

The first is realized fully the firm in one or two sessions. The bleaching is carried out, from an impression of dental arches, a flexible plastic gutter hosting thereafter whitening gel highly concentrated, and this during an exposure time of 15 minutes or more depending on the state initial tooth. Note that money is made painless.

As for ambulatory treatment, it is first carried out with the use of these gutters and using a gel of hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide. It is also possible, in extreme cases to make a bleaching session of 15 minutes extra followed by another session the following week laundering. In principle, the results appear truly after 15 days and are visible on average 4 years, depending on the client's lifestyle (high intake of coffee, tobacco or not). If sensitivity, it is imperative to stop the laundering to prevent damage to the enamel, dentin or the tooth nerve.

The kits sold in pharmacies

More and more brands of oral hygiene are developing kits ready, usable evidential quality, and affordable.

Available in pharmacies, these whitening kits have again a gel containing hydrogen peroxide but significantly less concentrated than that used in professional whitening. Among the new product types:

• Transparent adhesive strips: very practical and covered with 6% gel, they perfectly fit the shape of the teeth for a uniform deposit of the gel;
• The gel with brush: it allows a very precise application of the product, for selective use of some parts of teeth or teeth to stain more localized;
• The disposable trays: hygienic and disposable, they are ready and require no prior adaptation. They are supplied mostly with individual doses of gel ingenious and easily transportable.