I’d like to have my teeth whitened either by a professional or by using a DIY kit. I’m not sure of which. My teeth aren’t bad but I have a big smile and it needs some help.
Your experiences? Best methods/products? Prices? Problems with sensitivity?
Or if this has been discussed in another thread (I searched unsuccessfully), please link me to it.
This is right down my alley. I’m a cosmetics junkie. Any product claiming even vaguely to help make my age less apparent I try. So I made my way to teeth whitening products in the mid of last year.
I have Ionic White. I bought it online through eBay for about 30 bucks for two boxes. After using the first box as per directions I found myself in the dentist’s office with my son. I picked up the little card of fake teeth they use to determine color for crowns and my teeth were at the very whitest on the chart. I mentioned this to the dentist and he hadn’t heard of (or admitted to) the product. He told me that I’d gotten excellent results and that I probably would be unhappy shelling out hundreds of $$ on Zoom since I got such a great product OTC.
I have sensitive teeth and this doesn’t bother them at all. It comes with a blue-light mouth tray that you fill with two different gels. Put in mouth and light for three minutes. Do this three times in succession. It also comes with a “touch-up” kit containing two spray bottles. One appears to be hydrogen peroxide, the other has no ingredients listed. I spray those directly on the teeth and put in the light tray for the three minutes once a week.
I’m a smoker and a coffee/tea addict, so for $30 I couldn’t have gotten a better deal.
I’m wanting to try Go-Smile. But only because it’s at Sephora now. I’m a sucker, I admit it.
RSSchen, does your product also work with “dead” teeth ? By dead teeth I mean teeth that are slightly gray and no longer sensitive, because the nerve has been removed.
I used Go Smile with great results, except that you definitely have to keep up the maintenance program or you’ll be back where you started.
I picked up a brochure for Go Smile from Ulta the other day. That’s what sparked my recent interest.
I hadn’t thought about browsing ebay before either. I’ll check that out too.
I am a tea-drinker, mid-twenties, with all my teeth healthy and home-grown. I use a box of Crest Whitestrips Premium once a year, and whitening toothpaste. I have had people comment on how pretty and white my teeth are, so I guess they do a good job for me. They are not electric-white, but they aren’t tea-stained either.
I drink lots of coffee and such. My teeth aren’t particularly yellow or anything, I’m just really superficial :).
I went to the dentist and got fitted for a tray. The fitting, the tray, and my first box of bleach was $250. Now I just pay $20 when I need another box of bleach (which lasts several months). If I use the stuff every day, it gets my teeth very very white, but I’m lazy and do it once a week, so I’m moderately white.
Oh, and I only do my top teeth, because my bottoms don’t really show.
I also use whitening tooth paste.
I did Go Smile and my wife was extremely pleased with the results. I haven’t had it long enough to see what the longterm effects are, but you can purchase a package that allows for periodic touch-ups regularly to keep things bright (I also have their mouthwash).
I was such a fumble nuts I could never get those white strips to stay on my teeth, and the mold w/goo I got never seemed to work very well (though, again, operator error came into play). Go Smile was a good solution.
I’m sorry that I don’t know the answer to this. Most tooth-whitening products have disclaimers about teeth that are stained from say, antibiotics, and that they won’t work on crowns and such.
Perhaps you could Google and send an email to the company?