If you want a whiter, brighter smile, Abra Dental has the professional teeth whitening services for you.
Teeth Whitening: Show Off Your Pearly Whites
Healthy teeth cleaning habits can go a long way in keeping your smile beautiful and preventing plaque buildup, cavities, and gum disease. However, sometimes teeth staining is inevitable.
Either due to the aging process or dietary habits, stains and yellowing are bound to occur at some point. If you want a whiter, brighter smile, Abra Dental (formerly ChildSmiles•FamilySmiles) provides professional teeth whitening services.
Who is a Candidate for Teeth Whitening?
The best candidates for teeth whitening have a healthy gum line and healthy teeth without fillings or restorations. Those who have teeth with yellow tones and other types of tooth discoloration, especially extrinsic stains and surface stains, may respond best to treatment. Intrinsic stains that form during tooth development can be less predictable to whiten. Patients who have active cavities or gum disease may be turned away for a whitening service until those complications are addressed.
Who is Not a Candidate for Teeth Whitening?
Some patients may not be the best candidates for teeth whitening services. Your dentist will review your health and dental history, including your dental history, before recommending a whitening procedure. Patients with the following conditions or circumstances may not be the best candidates for teeth whitening:
Patients with restorations: dental restorations and existing restorations do not whiten like natural teeth, so restored and untreated teeth may not match after treatment. Some restorative materials, including resin based fillings, can also look different afterward.
Pregnant or breastfeeding women
Children under 16
Patients with gum disease, tooth decay, cavities, or exposed roots
Patients allergic to bleaching agents or whitening agents, such as hydrogen peroxide or carbamide
Patients with sensitive teeth
What are the Benefits of Professional Teeth Whitening?
Patients can get rid of yellow tones and other staining from foods, drinks, smoke, and age to reveal a whiter, healthier-looking smile, and professional treatments can remove brown stains and some deep stains more effectively than many whitening products. Compared with at home whitening options such as whitening strips, whitening toothpastes, and other teeth whiteners, professional care offers closer supervision and a safer, less abrasive approach.
All teeth whitening options at Abra Dental are:
Safe
Effective
Painless
Yield immediate whitening results, which are often faster with an in office procedure or office bleaching than with home products
How are the Teeth Prepared for a Whitening Service?
Your oral healthcare provider will likely need to prepare your teeth for your whitening service to ensure they are clean and ready!
To begin, your teeth will need a prophylactic cleaning to remove any plaque, debris, and extrinsic stains from the surface of your teeth and between them as part of stain removal before whitening. During your cleaning, your provider will perform a quick dental exam to review your oral health and check for any potential problems, including decay, cracks, cavities, restorations, sensitivity, and other concerns that can affect treatment planning.
If any complications are found, you will likely have to delay your treatment until such problems have been corrected.
We will take photos of your teeth to record their current tooth colour before the whitening process and compare it with the result. Assessing progress is important so you can be sure you are getting the best possible results!
How is Professional Teeth Whitening with Carbamide Peroxide Administered?
A bleaching gel is applied to the teeth as the bleaching agent used during the whitening procedure and held in place with specially designed trays. Peroxide concentration varies, and dental professionals may select hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide based on the patient and treatment goals. These trays are made from the patient’s unique dental impressions, fabricated as custom trays to match their exact tooth position. This helps ensure that the trays hug the natural shape of teeth, enabling consistent and complete whitening of the enamel surface. They also help keep the whitening gel in place while limiting contact with soft tissues to reduce gum irritation and tooth sensitivity.
Tips for Maintaining Your Whiter Smile and Reducing Tooth Sensitivity
After your teeth whitening service, you can help keep your teeth white, shiny, and bright by avoiding staining foods to maintain whitening results after whitening treatments:
Avoiding smoking or chewing products with nicotine
Reducing coffee, tea, and red wine consumption, since these are staining foods that can cause new surface discoloration
Drinking sodas or dyed beverages through a straw
Reducing consumption of dark foods, such as berries and sauces
Rinsing with water after eating or drinking
Following up with your dental office about touch-ups and safe tooth whitening products
If you want a whiter, brighter smile, Abra Dental has the professional teeth whitening services for you.
Show Off Your Pearly Whites
Healthy teeth cleaning habits can go a long way in keeping your smile beautiful and preventing plaque buildup, cavities, and gum disease. However, sometimes teeth staining is inevitable.
Either due to the aging process or dietary habits, stains and yellowing are bound to occur at some point. If you want a whiter, brighter smile, Abra Dental (formerly ChildSmiles•FamilySmiles) provides professional teeth whitening services.
Who is a Candidate for Teeth Whitening?
The best candidates for teeth whitening have a healthy gum line and healthy teeth without fillings or restorations. Those who have teeth with yellow tones and tooth discoloration that is mainly caused by extrinsic stains and surface stains may respond the best to treatment. Intrinsic stains related to tooth development may not respond as well to whitening. Patients who have active cavities or gum disease may be turned away for a whitening service until those complications are addressed.
Who is Not a Candidate for Teeth Whitening?
Some patients may not be the best candidates for teeth whitening services. Your dentist will review your health and dental history and dental history before recommending a whitening procedure, and can provide more information about your specific case. Patients with the following conditions or circumstances may not be the best candidates for teeth whitening:
Patients with dental restorations: Fillings, crowns, bridges, and other existing restorations made from restorative materials, including resin based fillings, are immune to the effects of tooth whitening. That means that your natural teeth and restored teeth may not match after the service.
Pregnant or breastfeeding women
Children under 16
Patients with gum disease, tooth decay, cavities, or exposed roots
Patients allergic to bleaching agents or whitening agents, such as hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide
Patients with sensitive teeth
What are the Benefits of Professional Teeth Whitening?
Patients can get rid of yellow tones and other staining from foods, drinks, smoke, and age to reveal a whiter, healthier-looking smile, and professional treatments can be especially helpful for brown stains and deep stains. Professional teeth whitening tends to yield more visible results than at-home kits while being safer and less abrasive, and whitening results are often faster with an in office procedure or office bleaching. For at home whitening, whitening strips, whitening toothpastes, and other teeth whiteners are common whitening products, though they usually work more gradually.
All teeth whitening options at Abra Dental are:
Safe
Effective
Painless
Yield immediate results
How are the Teeth Prepared for a Whitening Service?
Your oral healthcare provider will likely need to prepare your teeth for your whitening service to ensure they are clean and ready!
To begin, your teeth will need a prophylactic cleaning to remove any plaque, debris, and extrinsic surface stains for better stain removal before treatment. During your cleaning, your provider will perform a quick dental exam to check for any potential problems, including decay, cracks, and cavities, and review your oral health as part of treatment planning.
If any complications are found, you will likely have to delay your treatment until such problems have been corrected.
We will take photos of your teeth to record their current tooth colour before the whitening process and compare it with the result. Assessing progress is important so you can be sure you are getting the best possible results!
How is Professional Teeth Whitening Administered?
A bleaching gel is applied to the teeth and held in place with specially designed trays. These trays are made from the patient’s unique dental impressions, fabricated to match their exact tooth position. As part of the whitening procedure, dental professionals choose the peroxide concentration and whether to use hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide based on the case. Professionally made custom trays help protect the enamel surface and limit contact with soft tissues, which can reduce gum irritation and tooth sensitivity. This helps ensure that the trays hug the natural shape of teeth, enabling consistent and complete whitening of the enamel.
Tips for Maintaining Your Whiter Smile
After your teeth whitening service, you can help keep your teeth white, shiny, and bright by limiting staining foods and protecting your whitening results after whitening treatments:
Avoiding smoking or chewing products with nicotine
Reducing coffee, tea, and red wine consumption, since these are common staining foods
Drinking sodas or dyed beverages through a straw
Reducing consumption of dark foods, such as berries and sauces
Rinsing with water after eating or drinking
Asking your dental office about touch-ups and safe tooth whitening products