Dental Whitening Solutions Couple Well With Performance Vision Testing

By Kenneth Reed


Teeth may lose their original colour and sparkle even if a person brushes and flosses them every day. Teeth discoloration and staining may be caused by the food they eat; some, like tea and coffee contain a staining element called chromatin's. Smokers are more likely to have yellow teeth because of the nicotine in the tobacco. Other factors that may lead to teeth discoloration is age, injury to the mouth and some types of medication. There are two types of dental whitening methods a person can choose from as in the case of performance vision testing.

The first one is called vital treatment and it involves the removal of stains from the surface of the teeth, it is only performed on teeth that have live nerves. The most common type of vital treatment is the use of whitening toothpastes and air polishing. Besides these two types, gels containing hydrogen peroxide has been proven to be effective too.

People who want to be treated by a professional may go to a dentist's office for whitening their teeth. If it's vital treatment, the dental will use a gel for the process. The average time of the whitening process is an hour with one appointment, however, sometimes the process may take 3 hours and it may require more than one sitting.

Those who don't want to sit in a dentist's practice during the whitening procedure may ask the dentist to give them a gel and custom-made mouthpiece so that they may perform the procedure at home. When they get home, they will wear that mouthpiece filled with the gel for some time every day until the colour of their teeth satisfy them.

Some whitening products can be bought over the counter for those who don't want to consult with a dentist. However, they take longer to whiten the teeth because they have a weaker whitening agent. Even mouthpieces can be bought over the counter, but they won't perfectly.

Discoloration and stains don't always come from the surface, sometimes they come from the inside. In this case, vital treatment will no longer be effective. So, non-vital treatment procedures should be adopted and they can't be performed at home. One example of this procedure involves filling each teeth with a whitening agent and covering it with a temporary fill. After the whitening agent has done its work, the temporary fill will be removed, this normally takes place after a few days.

Dental whitening procedures rarely cause severe side effects. However, a few of people who took the treatment may suffer from teeth sensitivity and gum irritation for a short while. Also, pregnant women are not allowed to whiten their teeth because they might be putting the life of their unborn baby at danger.

The whitening treatments discussed here don't give a permanent solution, over some time the stains will return. They may return sooner, in a month after treatment, if a person continues to smoke or consume a lot of food and drinks containing chroming element. Otherwise, re-whitening may be done after a year.




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