To start with the best and easiest way is to see your dentist for a cleaning. They can remove the stains caused from the coffee, tea and smoking. Then the rest is up to your home care in keeping the stains off. Once you get the stains removed, it will be a lot easier to keep them off! Using a soft toothbrush and whitening toothpaste can do wonders alone, but sometimes you need a little extra help.
If you want the hollywood white, then talk to the dentist about home bleaching. He/she will suggest two different methods that are known to work well. One is bleaching trays that are custom made from impressions taken of your teeth. These work with a solution the dentist provides for you. The other is the in house, or one hour bleaching method that the doctor or his assistant preforms at the office.
The custom trays ususally takes a few minutes to a couple of hours a day for about two weeks to reach your desired results. Most patients I've found love this type of whitening. It allows them the freedom to judge when they need to "touch up" by bleaching whenever they feel their teeth have gotten stained from time, coffee, tea, wines and other things. It also allows them to touch up again months, or years down the road. The average cost of this is around $200-400. It's the method of bleaching I've used for over 15 years now, and I highly recommend this one.
Then there is the one hour system that the dentist does in his office, it's quiet expensive though, somewhere around the $600-$700 area. Some dentist don't use it or recomend it due to the sensitivity it causes. It's bleaching usually last for a couple of years and requires touch up with bleaching pens and mouthwashes which are expensive too. This gives you the instant white but the results aren't lasting.
So, it's really up to you and how much you want to spend to get those "pearly" whites. I would check around on the prices in your area. But the key question is, are you willing to maintain it, with regular appointments with your dentist and diligent home care? Talk to your dentist, they can answer all of your questions. Good luck!
Washington, DC -- Only one in ten diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity (oral cancer) is younger than 45 years.
Many young adults lack the traditional risk factors for oral cancer, namely, long term tobacco and/or alcohol use.
As a result, investigation of other factors which may contribute to the development of cancer in these patients is difficult because of the relative rarity of the cases and the wide array of potential carcinogens.
Past research has revealed that heavy alcohol and tobacco use was prevalent in some young oral cancer patients, but not at a higher rate than in a control population without cancer.
This has led clinical epidemiologists to wonder what, if any, potentially avoidable environmental exposures may predispose some young patients to develop oral cancer.
Two young patients were diagnosed with oral cancer and both reported the use of tooth whiteners in the years before their diagnosis.
Physician specialists and researchers joined to create a clinical history of these two patients and performed a retrospective survey of oral cancer patients to determine the prevalence of tooth whitener use in the entire population and in patients less than 45 years old.
Background: The active ingredient in most tooth whiteners used today is carbamide peroxide.
In general, a carbamide peroxide gel is placed in a dental tray, which is then worn by the patients for anywhere from a few hours to overnight.
Carbamide peroxide is composed of approximately 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, and when used as a whitener in an aqueous solution, it decomposes to release hydrogen peroxide and urea.
If you're talking toothapaste, i'd defenitly go with the new 'Colgate Visible White'
It's much better than Crest 'Vivid White'
As far as the 'Whitening Crest White strip - like' products, i'd go with Crest White Strips, and there's also premium.
Premium cost more because it works faster, while the original white strips are cheaper because you have to use them longer to get the full effect...i'd say go for the original, they worked better for me.
Also, IMO i'd chooser the tray whitening option done by your dentist.
you're looking at around $350 Canadian, and that's a fair deal, considering you'll get a hollywood bright smile ;)
there's also Laser whitening, but it costs twice as much or more.
~~consumer reports stated that ultabright advanced whitening toothpaste removed and protected against stains better than crest and colgate.....plus its cheaper. so after you whiten, use this toothpaste to keep stains off
~~whitening strips, whether it be crest or generic, work well (they have the same ingredients).... or you can try home whitening trays w/gel, but that takes more time & effort
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the best brand that I have try is maximum teeth whitening
check it out http://www.maximumteethwhitening.com/
it is really effective
To start with the best and easiest way is to see your dentist for a cleaning. They can remove the stains caused from the coffee, tea and smoking. Then the rest is up to your home care in keeping the stains off. Once you get the stains removed, it will be a lot easier to keep them off! Using a soft toothbrush and whitening toothpaste can do wonders alone, but sometimes you need a little extra help.
If you want the hollywood white, then talk to the dentist about home bleaching. He/she will suggest two different methods that are known to work well. One is bleaching trays that are custom made from impressions taken of your teeth. These work with a solution the dentist provides for you. The other is the in house, or one hour bleaching method that the doctor or his assistant preforms at the office.
The custom trays ususally takes a few minutes to a couple of hours a day for about two weeks to reach your desired results. Most patients I've found love this type of whitening. It allows them the freedom to judge when they need to "touch up" by bleaching whenever they feel their teeth have gotten stained from time, coffee, tea, wines and other things. It also allows them to touch up again months, or years down the road. The average cost of this is around $200-400. It's the method of bleaching I've used for over 15 years now, and I highly recommend this one.
Then there is the one hour system that the dentist does in his office, it's quiet expensive though, somewhere around the $600-$700 area. Some dentist don't use it or recomend it due to the sensitivity it causes. It's bleaching usually last for a couple of years and requires touch up with bleaching pens and mouthwashes which are expensive too. This gives you the instant white but the results aren't lasting.
So, it's really up to you and how much you want to spend to get those "pearly" whites. I would check around on the prices in your area. But the key question is, are you willing to maintain it, with regular appointments with your dentist and diligent home care? Talk to your dentist, they can answer all of your questions. Good luck!
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Originally published August 30 2004
Chemicals in teeth whiteners may cause cancer
by Mike Adams
Washington, DC -- Only one in ten diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity (oral cancer) is younger than 45 years.
Many young adults lack the traditional risk factors for oral cancer, namely, long term tobacco and/or alcohol use.
As a result, investigation of other factors which may contribute to the development of cancer in these patients is difficult because of the relative rarity of the cases and the wide array of potential carcinogens.
Past research has revealed that heavy alcohol and tobacco use was prevalent in some young oral cancer patients, but not at a higher rate than in a control population without cancer.
This has led clinical epidemiologists to wonder what, if any, potentially avoidable environmental exposures may predispose some young patients to develop oral cancer.
Two young patients were diagnosed with oral cancer and both reported the use of tooth whiteners in the years before their diagnosis.
Physician specialists and researchers joined to create a clinical history of these two patients and performed a retrospective survey of oral cancer patients to determine the prevalence of tooth whitener use in the entire population and in patients less than 45 years old.
Background: The active ingredient in most tooth whiteners used today is carbamide peroxide.
In general, a carbamide peroxide gel is placed in a dental tray, which is then worn by the patients for anywhere from a few hours to overnight.
Carbamide peroxide is composed of approximately 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, and when used as a whitener in an aqueous solution, it decomposes to release hydrogen peroxide and urea.
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If you're talking toothapaste, i'd defenitly go with the new 'Colgate Visible White'
It's much better than Crest 'Vivid White'
As far as the 'Whitening Crest White strip - like' products, i'd go with Crest White Strips, and there's also premium.
Premium cost more because it works faster, while the original white strips are cheaper because you have to use them longer to get the full effect...i'd say go for the original, they worked better for me.
Also, IMO i'd chooser the tray whitening option done by your dentist.
you're looking at around $350 Canadian, and that's a fair deal, considering you'll get a hollywood bright smile ;)
there's also Laser whitening, but it costs twice as much or more.
~~consumer reports stated that ultabright advanced whitening toothpaste removed and protected against stains better than crest and colgate.....plus its cheaper. so after you whiten, use this toothpaste to keep stains off
~~whitening strips, whether it be crest or generic, work well (they have the same ingredients).... or you can try home whitening trays w/gel, but that takes more time & effort
Crest Whitestrips are the best.
Crest WhiteStrips are the best.
And when you drink dark pop/soda, drink it through a straw.
well, you should brush with Crest pro-Health to Brush, and to whiten is ... maybe Colgate thingy mabobbers...
I like gosmile...it's a little expensive though