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If you want to get your teeth whitened there are a lot of options available. Start with professional whitening in the dental office. You may have heard of some of the leading systems like Zoom! Whitening or Britesmile and wondered which one lightens your teeth the most.

The answer is britesmile california they both work great and the costs are similar. Here's a quick comparison between Crest Whitestrips and professional one hour whitening. britesmile california are obviously much cheaper but they have there limitations. If your teeth are straight its much easier to contact the whitening agent onto the surface of the tooth and get the results. If there are crooked teeth you will have to shape the strips around your teeth to get consistent contact so the result is similar throughout. With professional whitening you tend to be able to get results faster and get whitening consistency. The results that a tray-based at-home teeth whitening (teeth bleaching) system can provide are not always predictable. Most certainly some types of tooth discoloration will be much more resistant to bleaching than others. Your dentist, as part of their initial examination, will need to determine the most likely cause of your tooth staining. Hollywood movie stars and like often have dental work to make their teeth white.

Sometimes in their attempt to achieve an unnatural shade of tooth whiteness a person will exceed damage their gums from burning by the peroxide. They can even burn over parts of their mouth. The teeth can become permanently bluish and translucent.

At-home teeth whitening and even in-dental office system cannot lighten existing dental work. Teeth whitening can possibly lighten teeth that have porcelain veneers. Porcelain veneers are translucent shells of porcelain that have been bonded onto the front side of a person's teeth. While the tooth bleaching agent will not change the color of the veneer itself it will be able to permeate the tooth from the backside, thus lightening the tooth structure that lies under the veneer. If you have gum recession on one or more teeth the visible root surface near the gum will not be effectively whitened, its not tooth enamel, its dentin. Teeth whitening systems won't effectively lighten dentin. The color of the root portion of the tooth (which shows where the gum recession has occurred) will not change noticeably as a result of your bleaching efforts. So back to the dentist to get that $10,000 front row of teeth-capped job.