How often have you sat in a darkened movie theater staring at the actors and actresses on the screen, silently asking if there is a way for your teeth to become as impossibly white as theirs? Their teeth not only look great, they look great in super-sized living Technicolor.
Well, ask no more. The answer to your question is yes, you too can have a set of Hollywood-white teeth. Teeth whitening products are now as common as hair coloring, and go well beyond the abrasive, enamel-wearing toothpastes which not long ago were the only means available to scour away the stains caused by coffee, tea, tobacco, and red wine.
Home Teeth Whitening
One of the most popular teeth whitening products is the home teeth whitening kit, which can be purchased over-the-counter in almost any store which carried dental care products. The basic components of there teeth whitening products are mouthpiece and teeth whitening gel, which has a peroxide base. Most of them contain hydrogen peroxide, but the strongest have carbamide peroxide.
These teeth whitening products must be used daily for a period for between three and four weeks, in order to have the teeth exposed to the peroxide long enough to achieve maximum lightening.
You can maintain the level of whitening you achieve from home teeth whitening products with the use of peroxide based tooth whitening toothpaste, and by cutting down on the consumption tooth staining drinks and foods.
Professional Teeth Whitening
If you have an upcoming event for which you'd really like to have your bright new smile ready to go, you can speed up the process by heading to the dentist's office and letting a professional put his or her teeth whitening products to work on you. What takes up to a month to accomplish with home teeth whitening products will take about an hour in the dentist's chair.
Your dentist will borrow a page for your home teeth whitening products by using a peroxide-based gel on your teeth, with three important differences. Your dentist's gel will have a much higher concentration of peroxide; your dentist will apply the gel in a custom-fitted mouth piece; and your dentist will zap the gel with a laser light beam to jump-start the bleaching process.
The result? Teeth which are between five and eight shades lighter after a single 60-minute treatment, and which will remain so for between two and five years--again depending on how committed you are to avoiding those tooth-discoloring substances.
You will, of course, pay more for the fast-acting professional teeth whitening products than for the slower self-administered ones. Either way, the money you spend will be buying you a million dollar smile, just like the ones you see on that big silver screen!
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