Teeth whitening strips are the most popular form of teeth whitening available in America and they are now available in the UK through your dentist. It is essential that before you undertake any form of whitening treatment that you visit your dentist for a thorough check-up and examination.
This is to ensure that your teeth and gums are healthy. If you start to whiten your teeth and you have a hole in one of them (tooth decay), the whitening agent can aggravate and even cause the nerve in your tooth to die resulting in the need for expensive root canal therapy.
To avoid this happening you need to have radiographs of your teeth taken which only your dentist can do to ensure there are no holes present, they also need to check that your gums are healthy and there are no medical contraindications to having any form of tooth whitening.
Teeth whitening is deemed as a dental procedure by the General Dental Council who regulate the practice of dentistry in the UK so anyone performing it has to have a dental qualification otherwise they are providing it illegally.
Teeth whitening strips are currently the most cost-effective teeth whitening treatment available in the UK. This is because the strips already contain the optimum amount of whitening gel, so there is no need for your dentist to make expensive moulds and trays to hold the whitening gel as with tray whitening systems.
WhiteWash Professional Whitening Strips are only available from dental practices – ask your dentist order them for your or find a dental practice that already supplies them by visiting our stockists page.
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