Nearly every show on television features a cast full of people with bright, shining smiles. Hollywood doesn’t breed perfect smiles. Often, many of these stars require cosmetic dentistry before hitting the screen. Tooth whitening remains the most popular cosmetic procedure sought by dental patients. Yellow teeth can cause people to feel shy about flashing their smile. Countless products gear their marketing towards people looking to whiten teeth. Your Milford cosmetic dentist, Mitchell I. Quintner, discusses how to safely whiten teeth at home.
Avoid Whitening Strips and Store-Bought Kits
As the holidays approach, more people desire a bright smile for their holiday cards. Often, patients will simply buy well-advertised bleaching kits and assume they offer professional whitening results. Sadly, most store-bought bleaching kits cannot offer professional results. Many patients opt for whitening strips, but the whitening affects generally fade quickly.
Other patients steer towards bleaching kits. Although store-bought bleaching kits can provide longer-lasting results than whitening strips, kits simply do not optimize whitening treatment for each person’s teeth. Store-bought bleaching kits typically come equipped with a consumer-grade bleaching gel and a one-size-fits-all bleaching tray.
Customize Your Whitening
Unlike store-bought options, prescribed bleaching kits offer professional-strength bleaching gel and custom-fit trays for our patients. Our custom-fit trays enable bleaching gel to properly make contact with teeth, resulting in a bright, whitened smile. Since the custom design of the bleaching trays fit to your dentition, less gel will reach your gums. Patients often report gum irritation when using store-bought kits because the generic trays allow gel to ooze into different areas of the mouth.
Light-activated bleaching systems can produce results more rapidly than prescribed at-home whitening kits, but do not enable patients to whiten teeth in the privacy of their home. Most patients typically see dramatically whiter teeth within two weeks of using professionally prescribed at-home whitening kits.
Begin Tooth Whitening Now
We provide an array of cosmetic dentistry services including teeth whitening, veneers, and smile makeovers at Sensitive Care Cosmetic and Family Dentistry. Contact us by calling (203) 878-6699 to schedule your appointment at our 06460 cosmetic dentistry office. We welcome patients from Milford and all neighboring communities.