Teeth Whitening

What Means Teeth Whitening?
Teeth whitening is a process for lightening your teeth and removing stains and discolorations. In other words, we can say that teeth whitening can make your smile beautiful by making your teeth sparkling.
Teeth whitening is not a one time process but it’s a continuous process in order to maintain a radiant smile.
Teeth whitening are one of the most popular cosmetic dental procedure because it plays an important role in your appearance and looks.
Most dentists can undertake teeth whitening to make your teeth whiter.
Why teeth whitening may be necessary?
Teeth Whitening
Enamel is an important part of the tooth, actually, it is the outer layer of the tooth, and the color of natural teeth is formed by scattering and reflection of light off the enamel when combined with the colour of the dentin underneath. The thickness and smoothness of enamel are affected by your genes.
Tooth enamel contains small pores that hold stains.
How teeth become Yellow?
The most common reason for teeth to get yellow or stained
Not taking good care of your teeth continuously and regularly
By drinking dark colour liquids such as red wine, coffee, tea and cold drink like cola
Using tobacco excessively
 When to whiten your teeth?
 Some dental problems like cavities should be treated before teeth whitened because it can affect the success of tooth whitening.
 Teeth whitening process can pass through decayed and reach the inner parts of the tooth In case your gums have receded, the exposed roots of your teeth may appear discolored or yellow. Also, this may cause
sensitivity after tooth whitening.
 Whitening also does not work on ceramic or porcelain crowns or veneers. It can be performed in the dental surgery or also at home. Your dentist will take the photograph of your teeth and this will help your dentist to monitor the progress of treatment.Your dentist will analyse your diet in order to give advice regarding staining .
The dentist hygienist will clean your teeth by removing plaque and tartar that can cause staining. Once this is done the teeth whitening procedure started.
 Which method could be used?
 There are two ways to make your teeth white, these are
Home bleaching: the dentist will give you a weak bleach jelly for home use which is kept around the teeth by a tray specially made for you.
Laser tooth whitening: At the moment we are not offering this until guidance is clearer.

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