PATIENTS - Aesthetic Procedures - Tooth Whitening

Tooth whitening is an elective therapy procedure which you can undergo to lighten the naturally given color of your teeth or in case you have teeth which have been stained or discolored either during the formative years of due to trauma of some kind. Discoloration of teeth can be segregated into two types: a) Extrinsic Stains which are basically collections on the tooth surface and are treated by procedures known as scaling and polishing. b) Intrinsic Stains or discolorations which may be due to inherent yellow coloration of the tooth, mottling of the teeth due to chemicals during their formative years or blackening of the tooth due to pigments released into the tooth structure due to trauma of some kind. Tooth whitening procedures mentioned here refer to the second variety of tooth discoloration. You can usually lighten your teeth considerably but usually there will be a few cases who do not respond very well to the therapy. Today you have two options of tooth whitening

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