Summertime is about being out and about and if there’s one thing we all know it is that bright light shows up any discolouration on your teeth at a time when you want them looking at their tip top best. For example when you meet your friends for a fun time or when you’re on holiday.
There are a wide variety of teeth whitening products available today, in fact over the past five years teeth whitening procedures have increased by 300%. Always remember that it is essential to get professional advice as to what product you should be using for that perfect smile.
Tooth stains have different sources, be it coffee, smoking, red wine or just aging. To begin with we find the cause of your tooth stain and then select from two classes of whitening techniques, vital and non-vital.
Vital bleaching is appropriate when the tooth bleaching is limited only to the tooth enamel, making it easy to treat. This procedure can cause some irritation to the gums, but it does go away very quickly. Non-vital tooth whiteners are used when teeth are discoloured after having been treated with a root canal. It is a long process, because the hydrogen peroxide formulation needs to remain inside the tooth between appointments as it cleans the tooth ‘from the inside out’.
Essentially there are three categories for dental whitening, home based, home and surgery and the inside/outside whitening procedure that is carried out at the surgery.
Remember, tooth whitening is by no means a one size fits all treatment. Also you need to make sure your teeth are already in a healthy condition before you start any treatment. You can rest assured that Chris Mercier has all the expertise you could possibly need to select the latest and best tooth whitening treatment.
At Chris Mercier we all work together as a team and try our best to make your visit as pleasant as possible and not as dreadful as you might expect. There’s a good dose of old-fashioned sense of humour amongst our staff, but we adhere to an established practice of “sympathetic dentistry”.
We understand that paying for dental work can be tough on your finances, which is why we are a member of the DenplanExcell programme. In addition to being a member of this programme we offer finance through Dental Finance so we can help you spread the payments for your tooth whitening procedure over a period that is affordable to you.
