At Healthy Smile Dental, we offer “take-home kit” whitening treatment.

Whiten your teeth at home with a dentist-prescribed whitening kit

A set of custom-made trays is created for you to take home, along with a bleaching agent gel and applicator kit. At home, you will need to apply the bleaching agent to your custom trays and wear them for a specified period of time. At HSD, we provide a whitening system called Pola Day. This system has proven to be a very effective treatment option for our patients. Typically, this process requires you to wear the tray(s) for one hour daily over a 7 to 10 day period. The main drawback of this whitening method is that you need to be responsible for wearing the trays for the recommended time consistently during the treatment period.

The disadvantages of whitening/bleaching:

• Not all natural teeth respond well to whitening. For example, yellow, orange and brown coloured stains usually respond well to whitening. However, grey coloured stains may only lighten a little, so the results may not be what you expect.
• Individual teeth may respond to bleach differently.
• White composite restorations are not affected by the whitening process and may need to be replaced to match the whitened teeth in order to achieve a consistent shade in your smile.
• When a bleaching agent comes into contact with your gums for a prolonged period, you may experience irritation and burning.
• Bleaching should be performed in a controlled setting. Some over-the-counter whitening products can be too powerful and can damage teeth if used incorrectly over an extended period. We do not recommend nor endorse over-the-counter whitening treatments for this reason.
• Bleaching may not be suitable if you have a pre-existing sensitivity to bleaching, cracked/worn teeth, receding gums or gum disease (periodontitis).