When you have embarrassing stains on the surfaces of your teeth, then you need treatment with professional teeth whitening. With our take-home kit, you can obtain teeth up to eight shades brighter. In today’s blog, your Kansas City, MO, dentist talks about how we whiten teeth and help your new results last.
The Factors Behind Teeth Stains
Why do stains form on the surfaces of our teeth? These could form due to a diet high in sugar and starch, which helps feed harmful oral bacteria to cause plaque buildup, making discoloration more visible. Lack of proper brushing and flossing also helps cause buildup on the teeth. Consuming drinks with dark pigments, like coffee, red wine, soda, and tea, could also discolor your teeth. As part of your treatment, we will assess the cause and severity of your discoloration so we can choose the best treatment option. Even if you have stains too severe for our take-home whitening kit, we can mask them with bonding or even porcelain veneers!
Our Take-Home Whitening Kit
With our take-home kit, you will visit the office just long enough for us to take detailed impressions and measurements of your smile, using them to create a set of plastic trays that are custom-fitted for your smile. We then send these trays home with you, along with multiple plastic syringes of a powerful bleaching gel. You add the gel to the trays and then wear them daily for about an hour a day on average. You repeat this daily for about a week to ten days on average. The trays ensure even results across your smile and prevent saliva from diluting the gel. Your teeth could be up to eight shades brighter! You can keep the trays and any leftover gel for touch-ups in the months to come.
Tips for Brighter Smiles at Home
You can also take steps at home to help your smile stay brighter for longer. For example, reduce how much sugar and starch is in your diet, and limit your consumption of drinks with dark pigments. Take time each day to brush for two minutes when you wake up and then again before bed, and to floss thoroughly before bed too. These actions can help limit the severity of discoloration. If you have any questions about how we brighten smiles with our at-home teeth whitening treatment, then contact our team today to learn more. We want to help you smile with confidence again!
Schedule An Appointment for Teeth Whitening
We want to help your smile shine with our professional teeth whitening kit, so give us a call now. To schedule an appointment with the team at Delightful Dental Care in Kansas City, MO, call our office today at 816-942-7669.