Teeth Whitening - Estetik Dental Group

Teeth whitening is an aesthetic intervention to achieve the desired tone by turning on the color changes or innate skin color of a person’s teeth over time for various reasons.

Causes of Colorization Seen on Teeth

Physiological coloration that goes on throughout one’s life

Colorings caused by amalgam fills

Use of some antibiotics used in infancy and pregnancy

The colorations that occur due to the treatment of the canal

Consuming dye agents such as tea, coffee, wine, and long use of mouthwash

Traumatic colorations

Over-purchase of fluorine

Some genetic diseases

Teeth whitening uses two different methods

Office Bleaching: The office-type bleaching process is performed by the dentist in the clinic and is the most effective method of all bleaching methods. This is because the peroxide ratio of the bleaching agent applied to the teeth is much higher. In order to achieve a better result than bleaching, the dental stones must be cleaned first. Color is detected in teeth prior to bleaching. A protective barrier to prevent damage to pre-processing gums is used to seal the gums, applying bleaching gel to the teeth for about 15 minutes, and gel is activated using blue led light. This application is repeated 2 or 3 times by the amount of coloration in the teeth.

During sessions, after treatment is complete, a patient is asked to abstain from colorful foods and to reduce as much use as possible when smoking. A person’s sensitivity can occur between bleaching sessions. This sensitivity is temporary. It can also be removed with desensitizing gels and toothpastes.

Home Bleaching: The patient’s dental stones must be removed if they exist first. In this type of whitening system, which we call home, the color of the teeth is detected before treatment begins. The patient then gets measured, and they make transparent records to that extent. When the patient is in the home, they put in plaques a bleaching gel containing carbamide peroxide at a lower percentage than the office type, and use the records for 10-15 days, or 8-10 days in night sleep, for at least 4-6 hours a day. Weekly controls follow the course of the treatment.

Both office and home-type bleaching are used together in a dental bleaching method called combine-type bleaching. The practice of dental whitening in the clinic is supported by home-type bleaching which lasts 2-3 days after implementation.

Another form of whitening is intracurial bleaching, which is used with bleaching gel to the part of the tooth that appears in the mouth called the kuron, in order to remove coloring from canal-treated teeth.

Colorings caused by staining food and beverages such as tea, coffee, food dyes may be removed from the tooth by relatively polarizing process. Then bleaching is performed if the tooth tone still needs to be turned on.

Colorization is classified as internal coloration, resulting in a variety of systemic diseases, genetic diseases, particularly the use of tetracycline group antibiotics, excessive fluorine intake. In such cases, it is often necessary to restore teeth with constant prostheses instead of bleaching them