How Often Should I Have Professional Teeth Whitening?

Nothing compares to professional teeth whitening when it comes to improving the color of your teeth. The experience is unique for each person due to factors like their diet and the starting color of their teeth. Teeth whitening treatments involve two phases: the initial whitening treatment and maintenance treatments to keep your teeth's new color.

Professional teeth whitening can be beneficial to a person's appearance since the condition of their teeth is one of the first things people pick up on during interactions. Teeth whitening treatments also add to the destruction of oral bacteria which can lead to conditions like halitosis (bad breath) and gum disease.

Professional teeth whitening treatments provide the fastest results when it comes to whitening teeth and it is a non-invasive procedure. The results from teeth whitening procedures performed by a dentist typically last longer than the results of over-the-counter teeth whitening products.

Most people who get teeth whitening treatments can expect to keep the results for at last a year. However, habits like smoking or drinking coffee regularly can lead to new stains and discoloration appearing earlier.

What to expect during professional teeth whitening

Teeth whitening treatments involve using bleaching agents like hydrogen carbamide and hydrogen peroxide to remove discoloration and stains from a person's teeth. Professional whitening treatments use the strongest bleaching agents available which leads to the best results. These bleaching agents are not sold to the general public since their use needs to be supervised by a dentist.

The bleaching agents used for these treatments permeate teeth enamel and reach the inner layers of a tooth. These treatments can be used to restore teeth to their original color to make them whiter than they have ever been.

The potency of the bleaching agents used for in-office whitening treatments leads to up to eight shades of improvement in the whiteness of the patient's teeth after a single session.

Spacing out your whitening treatments

One of the unwanted side effects that often come with teeth whitening is increased tooth sensitivity. This occurs because whitening agents weaken enamel while whitening teeth. That means getting teeth whitened often can end up damaging enamel.

It is one of the many reasons why dentists are not fans of over-the-counter whitening products since the patient's teeth and mouth are not evaluated before the treatment. Each patient's current dental health determines how often they should have whitening treatments. In-office treatment will typically keep teeth white for a year, so the patient might only need maintenance treatments once or twice a year.

People with teeth that are prone to being sensitive might have to space their maintenance treatments further apart to prevent irritating their teeth.

Our dentist will come up with the right schedule

The only person who should be determining how often you get whitening treatments is a dentist who understands your current dental health. Call or visit our New York clinic if you want to enhance the color of your teeth.

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