Home Tooth Whitening Products That Work

What home tooth whitening products do the best job?

The answer is: “Follow the experts”.

Unquestionably professionals do the best job in most of anything. That is why they called professionals. When it comes to tooth whitening, dentists are the professionals.

What professionals don’t like to tell you is that “you can do it yourself”. That would hurt business wouldn’t it?

In short: If you are considering home tooth whitening the best advice you can get is to follow these general guidelines.

• Dentists use custom fitted tooth whitening trays. There are many whitening kits available with custom fitted trays. It is better if you stay with these. Dentists do, why wouldn’t you?
  
  
• Dentists use a powerful hydrogen peroxide gel. You cannot possibly use gels with very high concentration. It would not be safe. I should not go higher than 22% carbamide peroxide or 6% hydrogen peroxide gels. This is as close as you can get.
  
  
• Many dentists use light to activate or accelerate the process. It is better if you don’t try to get a home tooth whitening kit with a light.

The best home tooth whitening products do work.

Today you can truly do it yourself. It hasn’t always been that way. Not too many years ago tooth bleaching was much different. The chemicals used were unsafe for public use. But science changes things like it did with many aspects of our life.

Take photography as an example. Fifty years ago taking a quality picture required an expert photographer. Today even a 5 year old child can take better pictures than that. Expert photographers hardly ever take family pictures anymore. We take them ourselves instead. It is much cheaper and most of us would not be able to tell the difference anyway.

Following the professionals really pays off.

The difference in whiteness is hard to tell.

Watch out! Quick and cheap hardly ever works! Many home tooth whitening products sold today promise fast results and low prices. More often than not these products are cutting corners. They do not follow the professionals closely. If you want whiter results go for quality.

Let’s follow our experts then.

What kinds of products do dentists use?

Dentists use the magic of strong whitening gels. Actually, they use very strong whitening gels. In fact these gels are so strong that they must cover their own eyes and use protective paint to save your gums and soft tissue.

Their other magical tool is a custom fitted whitening tray. The tray is made to fit your teeth and your teeth only. This way the bleaching gel is evenly distributed around your teeth and contacts the entire tooth surface. Partial contact does only partial whitening. And you don’t want to go home with yellow spots around the edges do you?

There is one more thing they use these days. The magic wand called whitening light. The light activates the gel and shortens bleaching time. There are many articles questioning the benefit these lights provide. Most of the time light is used to activate the gel. This enables the use of less potent whitening chemicals. The light may also provide a heat source for faster results. Commercially available gels are not activated by light so you don’t need lights.

There are many ways of cutting corners and there are reasons to do so. As I said, the best home tooth whitening products closely follow what professionals use. The best whitening kits will whiten your teeth just as well and save you money for other things.

Also there are home tooth whitening products that appear professional but in fact they hide behind smart designs and marketing tricks. Look out for these.

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