The whitening procedure takes about an hour and a half. We get you comfortable in your chair, make sure that you’re relaxed. We want you to have a good time.

Before starting the whitening procedure, prepare the mouth by putting various protective guards and barriers over your gum and lips so we minimize any risks of any whitening compound going anywhere except where we want it to go.

We apply the whitening compound in stages. We have a number of applications that we put on for about 15 minutes at a time

So, if you’ve got fillings in front teeth, you can end up getting black lines around them, which isn’t a good look. I get a lot of people asking about these new charcoal toothpaste.

Do they help, do they work, what’s the story with the charcoal? Well, I put a little article on my blog post recently about that.

I honestly think it’s a bit of a fad. Charcoal can be hazardous to you in the long term, the particles can be a little bit abrasive.

So if you use it for a

Many people when asking about whitening say, “How many shades lighter are my teeth gonna go?”

Look, there are many, many different shade measuring charts available, you know.

There’re hundreds of them, different mechanisms, different systems from a lot of different people. When you have whitening, there’s no way you can guarantee a particular degree of whitening.

Everybody gets brighter, some people get super bright, some people get less bright, there’s a range.

In terms of quantifying it we, in our practice it’s standardised on a particular set of shades such as this.

You know,

The way that we do it here, we really don’t have very many issues at all.

It’s because we get things healthy before we start, and we make sure that we follow the best protocols and procedures to get you a good result without causing you any problems afterward.

With whitening processes, sometimes there’s a bit of sensitivity that can occur when the whitening’s been done. There are two parts to it, one is sensitivity that can occur during the process, and another is any sensitivity that can occur in a period

It’s very important to have the whole process managed by a competent professional because before you whiten than teeth, you have to make sure that everything’s healthy.

Is whitening safe? Yeah, it is, but the whole whitening process has been around for many, many decades so the dental industry is very, very experienced in managing the whitening of teeth.

The compounds we use, they’re tried, tested, and proven, and if it’s used carefully by trained practitioners that know what they’re doing, the likelihood of and adverse consequences are close to zero.

Dangers exist

So, you can keep your teeth white and bright for a lifetime without a lot of trouble.

There are different whitening procedures available. We can either do it in-chair or provide you with a take-home whitening system.

The most effective way is to combine the two, where you do some in-chair bleaching where we get you a very bright result very quickly and you follow it up with some trays to do the application at home by yourself.

That gives the best result with the most durable outcome. We find that the whitening

We have had a lot of people ask us about this. The following article published on the ADA website says it all:

Charcoal toothpastes: The more you know, the less you may want to use it

 19 August 2019

Charcoal is everywhere these days.

The compound has a long history of use, with its use intra-orally stemming from the capacity of roughly ground charcoal to abrade away stains and deposits on teeth and absorb noxious substances. These days, you will find charcoal in dental products, beauty products and even foods, such as

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Kids visits info

Please read this before bringing your child here!!!

We are born with only two fears – of falling, and loud noises – all other fears in life are learned, including fear of dental treatment!

Children are NOT naturally afraid of dental visits – they are only ever nervous if they have been ‘pre-frightened’ by parents or peers.

Here are some essential tips about how to manage your child’s appointment with a dentist:

NEVER mention the words ‘pain’, ‘drill’, ‘needle, ‘hurt’ etc. – all this does is make a child concerned. They all