With cosmetic dentistry, our team offers a custom set of trays and a powerful bleaching gel to remove stains and improve your smile beauty. In today’s blog, your Astoria, NY, dentist discusses how we implement these trays and gel to help achieve a brighter smile without causing tooth sensitivity, and offer tips for keeping your results noticeable.
The Causes Of Your Stains (and Better Habits)
Knowing the causes of your discoloration could help you make better choices to keep your smile brighter for longer periods. For example, drinking more water than say, soda, red wine, tea, coffee, and fruit juice could mean preventing stains. Cutting back on sugary and starchy foods and instead eating healthier items lower in sugar and starch could reduce plaque buildup and visible discoloration. You also help by brushing and flossing your teeth daily, and avoiding tobacco products too. Not only do these actions help prevent stains, but they could also lower your overall risk of cavities and gingivitis too.
Custom Trays and Gel
Now, let’s look at how we remove stains and brighten smiles, often by up to eight shades. The process starts with an office visit. After we assess the cause and severity of your discoloration, our team will take detailed digital impressions to create a set of plastic trays. We send you home with said trays, along with a powerful bleaching gel. At home, you will fill the trays with the gel and wear them for between a half hour and 45 minutes. The trays help ensure even results and prevent dilution from saliva. The total treatment time depends on the severity of your stains, but usually falls between one and two weeks.
Preventing Tooth Sensitivity
Not only does this brighten smiles, but the system is designed to help reduce tooth sensitivity as well, something that people who use store-bought strips and other over-the-counter solutions often complain about. You then keep the trays and any remaining gel for touch-ups as needed down the road. We could also schedule a cleaning in the coming months to remove plaque and help your results remain. If you happen to have permanent discoloration, which form beneath the enamel and may be difficult to reach with trays and gel, we could mask them with bonding or porcelain veneers, or possibly a combination of the two. If you have any questions about tackling the esthetic issues that impact your smile’s beauty, then contact our team today to learn more.
Do You Have Questions About Teeth Whitening?
Our team knows how valuable a brighter smile is for many of our patients. To learn more about how we remove discoloration and brighten teeth, then schedule a consultation by calling Jeffrey Leibowitz, DDS, in Astoria, NY, today at 718-728-8320.
