Store Bought Kits vs. Our Professional Teeth Whitening Service
AC Dental of Linden offers a professional teeth whitening service to improve the appearance of your smile. This is one of the easiest ways to help your teeth to look youthful, bright, and refreshed. Over time, it is perfectly natural for teeth to become dull and stained. Drinking things like coffee, tea, and wine can contribute to this as can eating food with soy sauce or other staining ingredients. Even natural food can stain your teeth, making it important to brush after eating, to have your teeth cleaned frequently, and to schedule a whitening procedure as necessary.
Given how easy it is to stain one's teeth, the demand for teeth whitening products continues to increase. This has led to a variety of solutions being available in the drug store. Everything from whitening toothpaste to trays, strips, and pens are available for purchase. While they make claims of whitening the teeth, the results will differ wildly between them.
Regardless of the solution one considers trying, buying any product from a store will most likely only remove surface stains. This works well for those that have generally white teeth anyway. For everyone else, it is not as effective because a lot of the discoloration happens below the surface of the enamel.
Professional teeth whitening
When visiting our dental office, we use a professional teeth whitening solution that penetrates the enamel to target the deep stains and discoloration that is taking place inside of the tooth. This is done through the process of oxidization. This changes the molecules inside of the teeth to reflect less light and appear colorless or white.
Our teeth whitening service is incredibly effective and the patient can expect his or her teeth to whiten by eight shades or more. When compared with the results one gets from a store kit, this is truly the best solution and we highly recommend it.
store bought teeth whitening
Another concern with a store-bought kit is the risk of overexposure. A common problem with whitening is that people tend to place the solution on their teeth for too long or whiten too frequently. This overexposure can begin to erode the enamel and create tooth sensitivity. Think of it in terms of bleaching a shirt. If an individual places bleach on it for a few minutes, then the bleach lifts the stain.
If one leaves the bleach on for several hours, then he or she might get a hole in the shirt. People need to exercise even more caution when it comes to the teeth because a patient only gets one set of permanent teeth. When a patient uses our teeth whitening service, we will ensure that he or she is only using the solution as is appropriate and that there is no overexposure. This eliminates the chance of the teeth becoming unnecessarily sensitive.
Simultaneously, we will help to prevent any unnecessary discomfort by ensuring that you do not have any cavities or tooth infections. Applying a whitening solution to them could cause irritation but by examining your teeth first, we can ensure that you are healthy enough to proceed.
Teeth whitening is an excellent way to improve your appearance and your smile, but we recommend that you do so under the supervision of a dentist.
Considering the difference between over the counter teeth whitening and professional whitening? If so, it can be easy to feel a bit overwhelmed about which is the better option. Before settling for store-bought teeth whitening, it is important to understand that it is not the same quality as professional teeth whitening. Let us discuss the…
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We hope this letter finds you and your family in good health. Our community has been through a lot over the last few months, and all of us are looking forward to resuming our normal habits and routines. While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety.
Infection control has always been a top priority for our practice and you may have seen this during your visits to our office. Our infection control processes are made so that when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable. We want to tell you about the infection control procedures we follow in our practice to keep patients and staff safe.
Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We follow the activities of these agencies so that we are up-to-date on any new rulings or guidance that may be issued.
You may see some changes when it is time for your next appointment. We made these changes to help protect our patients and staff. For example:
Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office.
We have hand sanitizer that we will ask you to use when you enter the office. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed.
You may see that our waiting room will no longer offer magazines, children’s toys and so forth, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.
Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. That might mean that you’re offered fewer options for scheduling your appointment.
We will do our best to allow greater time between patients to reduce waiting times for you, as well as to reduce the number of patients in the reception area at any one time.
We look forward to seeing you again and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the steps we take to keep you, and every patient, safe in our practice. To make an appointment, please call our office at (908) 862-7171 or visit our website at https://dentistlindennj.com/.
Thank you for being our patient. We value your trust and loyalty and look forward to welcoming back our patients, neighbors and friends.