Patients are asking for help choosing tooth whiteners

December 2013

Patients are asking for help choosing tooth whiteners.

Whitening toothpastes (Colgate Total Whitening, etc) use abrasives to polish and chemicals to break up surface stains...but explain that they don't get deeper stains.

OTC whitening strips, paints, and gels (Crest Whitestrips, etc) use peroxide to penetrate tooth enamel and bleach out stains.

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Patients are asking for help choosing tooth whiteners

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