What do we mean by tooth whitening?

It is a chemical way and through it we make the tooth look very white. And remove all internal color and we make in both, the clinic and the home.

In Clinic: Through the oxygen water matter which have the gel form and put in a plastic injection and by a very high concentrated about 38% after isolate the  gingival by a special plastic layer and it become solid by light. and after that we concentrate on the tooth which painted by gel a special light with a very short wave like the plasma light to activate the chemical reaction which make the free oxygen atom transfer inside the tooth and that’s through the very small pores which happen in the outside surface of the tooth, and it is the enamel which remove the color that spread inside the tooth and destroy it and turn the tooth’s color clear white.

In Home: Through applying stamps made of plastic and it is prepared at tooth lab according to every patient ,that it is surrounding the tooth from ever side and consist the same matter mentioned before but with a very low concentration gingival.

According to the ready made stamps it I apply for only half hour daily and for a 2 weeks, but the previous made stamp which made specially to the patient and according to his tooth measurement ,he apply it during sleeping for 7 hours and also for 2 weeks.

And we can mix between the tow ways if the patient tooth I very colored then, we whiten it first at the clinic and it takes an hour, and after that the patient take the whiten matter to home to use it for few days or weeks according to the situation of every patient.

What is the different between whitening and glittering?

The glittering is a physical operation and, it removes the tooth surface color through a special brush assembled on air set tooth or the electrical and with a special confection have a special specification to scrape off this outside color or to use another set that more fast and effective ant it is Air Flow that it gives a high speed pressure of air flow mixed with a very small and smoothly atoms that it can remove the surface color of the tooth but more fast and strong than the brush.

But the whitening is a totally chemical operation that changes the inside color of the tooth, the glitter way cant do or even remove the inside color of the tooth

What are the cases that we use the whiting operation?

1-The tooth which colored by the Tetras clean, and it is an antibiotic used to destroy inflammation microbe and its color is yellow or orange and that’s as a result of the pregnant mother of taking the Tetras clean, or when child use it when their age not exceed the 12 years and in that time their tooth are not totally formed.

2-The tooth which colored by the fluorine component and it color is grey or brown, and that happen when people drink from ground water or from well water which have a high percentage of fluorine while he is child.

3-The tooth which colored as result of accidental disease or, healthy disturbance for the pregnant mother or, for the child while he grows and his tooth formed.

4-The tooth which colored as a result of people get old , that the tooth color turns and change to the yellow gradually when he become old.