Tooth Whitening Products - which work/are best?

tatts_2

\I know its not exactley what your looking for, but noticed in sainsburys today that they have BLANX toothpaste on offer for £4.66 (normally £7.99 I think) Few people I know swear by this stuff, and its sold for LOTS more on shopping channels.......!
Also very good for those who dont like 'foamy toothpaste' !

Polly

I spent £110 recently to get a kit from my own dentist BEFORE I found out that such things were available for less elsewhere. Not a complete loss tho as I did get a proper mould but delighted to hear that I can buy the top up gel for a lot less than my dentist charges - £30. Not using it much tho as I can't seem to kick my black tea and my dentist advised that it was a waste of time (and money) using it if I was going to drink black tea.

pjb007

dalumsden1 wrote:

The pictures on the smile brighter site do it no justice. I'll stick to Colgate.

Me too, I use Colgate Total Plus Whitening and every 6 months the dentist polishes them.

moneylover

There is an organisation call Cochrane that looks at the evidence for health care treatments to assess what works and what doesnt. Occasionally they take a topic of general consumer interest and one such, that was done fairly recently, was tooth whitening. There is a summary of the article at
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab006202.html and, for anyone who wants to plough through the whole report it can be found at
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD006202/frame.html
Lots of dentists now use Zoom and for this you have the main treatment at the dentist and do a follow up tray at home. Its circa £350 where I live in Essex.
The gold standard is Britesmile and that now costs an arm and a leg in UK in spite of only lasting circa 2 years as does Zoom. If anyone travels to the USA they have Britesmile spas - I think that they use dental technicians to do the treatment with a single dentist around in case of problems - because of this its much cheaper than in UK, especially with the exchange rate being so much in our favour. Here is a link http://www.britesmile.com/ currently its $399.

jammiev

Kleric wrote:

Evening All

I've recently been looking into getting some tooth-whitening products to use but there's a bewildering array of different stuff to try. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on which ones work best that they might be able to share.

Just to clarify I'm not really talking about normal toothpastes that are supposedly "whitening" but more about proper special whitening products like teeth polishes, gels etc etc

But then again . . . any help would be greatfully received thankyou

cheers

K

hi, my bro is a dentist and does'nt agree with these tooth whitenening products. he says teeth are nauturally pearl/off-white in colour and should 'nt be brilliant white!!
don't bother with these products, he recommends colgate total!:beer:

IoweIoweitsofftoworkIgo

Came across this recently-discounted offers on teeth whitening, from £8.95

http://www.buycosmetics.com/Catalogue/Catalogue.aspx?search=teeth

HankMcSpank

I use Shane McGowan's "Brilliance" range of whitening products, which gives unique results....

mookiandco

I have used this and it did the job!

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.231946/walk.yah.UKHB-UK28

QVC have their 30 day money back guarantee too, so if it doesnt work you can return it and you've not really lost anything!

It doesnt use peroxide which is why I chose it.

splodger_2

The stuff from QVC uses "energised oxygen" - that's still bleach.

As far as I'm aware, the gels that dentists use contain carbamide peroxide in varying concentrations (more stable than hydrogen peroxide). The rapidity of bleaching is dependant on the concentration of bleaching compound and it's contact time with the teeth.

Teeth are slightly porous - that's how the discolouring agents get in, and thats the way the carbamide peroxide penetrates and whitens.

Some discolouration will be impossible to shift - tetracycline antibiotics taken when young I think can cause permanent mottling for instance, or if your teeth are naturally a more ivory colour.

You will not bleach composite or porcelain dental work either, so if you are going to have some done, whiten your teeth first. If you've already got some, then you may want replacements to avoid colour mismatch.

Anyway, I did my teeth, they are loads whiter (not embarrassed to smile any more) and it cost me about £40 and some effort compared to about £300 from the dentist.

Kleric

thanks for all your replies everyone - very interesting info - very usefull

Kleric :-)