Tooth Bleaching

Tooth bleaching is another name for teeth whitening, a chemical process that removes stains from teeth leaving them visibly whiter.

Smile White provide professional tooth whitening treatments that start with a 3D scan of your mouth, the creation of your custom whitening tray and our dental grade whitening gels.

How tooth bleaching works

Tooth bleaching is a chemical process that uses both abrasion and stain disruption to loosen and remove stains from teeth. In some cases it can temporarily affect enamel resulting in increased sensitivity for a few days after the treatment.

Types of tooth bleaching

There are many methods of bleaching a tooth. These include budget friendly teeth whitening strips and toothpastes through to professional dental bleaching treatments.

Cheap tooth bleaching treatments

Effectiveness: 3/5

The cheapest tooth bleaching treatment is using a whitening toothpaste. Rather than chemically bleaching your teeth, whitening tooth pastes use a mild abrasive to remove stains through repeated brushing. This can leave teeth sensitive for a few days.

At home tooth bleaching kits

Effectiveness: 4/5

There are several types of at-home tooth bleaching treatments including whitening strips and home bleaching gels.

Teeth whitening strips are pressed against your teeth and left for 20 minutes. This enables you to quickly bleach your teeth. As the strips are not moulded to your teeth the results can be patchy leaving areas of discolouration.

At-home bleaching gels use a generic plastic retainer to hold gel against your teeth. This can be an effective way to bleach your teeth but can become expensive over time as the gel is not being used efficiently

Professional tooth bleaching treatments

Effectiveness: 5/5

Professional tooth bleaching treatments use a custom made retainer that holds high strength whitening gel against your teeth. This proximity and gel strength gives a professional result with teeth being uniformly white. Its also cost effective as only a small amount of gel is required for each treatment.

Your local Smile White approved dentist will create a 3D scan of your teeth which helps us to create a special whitening "tray" that holds gel close to your teeth for optimum whitening. Combine this with our specially formulated, high strength peroxide gels and you gave a treatment that delivers amazing results. Once your whitening tray has been created your time with the dentist is done allowing you to continue your treatment at home as required.

Alternatives to tooth bleaching

If your teeth are crooked, gapped or crowded then you may not want to draw attention to your teeth by bleaching them. If this is the case then there are alternative tooth bleaching treatments that can help.

Composite Bonding is a dental procedure where resin is applied to the surface of teeth to fix imperfections. The result is you get a straight white smile without damaging the underlying teeth.