Deep Bleaching - Real Bleaching

Most patients are significantly helped by what we refer to as take-home, or tray bleaching. It's the most common type of bleaching done professionally and involves custom made trays into which the patient applies bleaching agent and wears for 30 -60 minutes a day for 2 weeks. We have been using one of the best products on the market, Opalescence, with great success.

Take home bleaching is a simple and safe technique that most patients manage and tolerate well. The usual shade shift of the teeth using a standard shade guide is 5 - 6 tabs brighter. This is an esthetically pleasing result for most patients.

However, for those patients that start out with very dark teeth the 5 - 6 tab shade shift, though an improvement, usually doesn't put the teeth in the esthetically pleasing range. They typically are disappointed. In the past, the most common way to deal with such dark teeth was to cover them with an opaque porcelain, usually in the form of veneers or full crowns. For patients who had nicely shaped and aligned natural teeth porcelain veneers or crowns were and expensive and somewhat destructive procedure.

Over the past several years dentists and researchers have modified the bleaching process where we can now predict, for nearly all patients with very dark teeth, a significant brightening. The process is usually referred to as Deep Bleaching. It is wonderful because now, instead of cutting teeth to prepare them for porcelain we can brighten them without even picking up a drill! It is safe and very effective.

I have completed several cases using the Aquabrite system and have been thrilled with the results. It's one of the best new technologies in dentistry.

If you, or someone you know, have tried bleaching and not been pleased with the outcome, or told by a previous dental professional that bleaching would not work I would recommend serious consideration of Deep Bleaching. Please, give us a call to schedule a free consultation.