Whitening Teeth At Home Using Blue Light

Whitening teeth at home using blue light technique is achievable using at home whitening kits that perform a similar action as the dentists procedures done at his office. The bleaching chemical, hydrogen peroxide is the most important factor in the whitening process. The light that is used during the process only increases the effectiveness of the bleaching material that penetrates to the dentoid part of each tooth and deoxidizes it. This performs a bleaching action that lightens the color of the tooth.

The process is very much like what you would go through at the dentists' office - application of the bleaching gel on the teeth and then using a special bite-on flash light to accelerate the bleaching process. Most home teeth whitening kits include these features and apply this technique. The main differences are the concentration of the bleaching materials and the soft tissue protection options:

• Bleaching material concentration:

Dentists' offices are considered a safe, stable and controlled medical environment and that's why the hydrogen-peroxide gel they use can safely have a much stronger concentration of hydrogen peroxide than "at-home" types of tooth whitening kits, and therefore potentially achieve better results. Since excessive amounts of hydrogen peroxide left on teeth for too long can damage them, "at-home" systems are purposely "diluted". To compensate for this, at-home systems often require extended exposure time, or more frequent applications.


• Soft tissue protection :

The protective material is important for preventing the bleaching material from hurting the soft tissue. Soft tissue protective materials are usually used only at the dentists' office procedures and not included in at-home teeth whitening kits.

To sum it up - when you're Whitening Teeth At Home using the blue light technique you're doing more or less the same thing that the dentist would be doing at his office but his procedure is more effective, faster and has less potential for problems and discomfort.

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