You can buy 10% carbamide peroxide or its equivalent OTC. What you can’t buy are the thin custom fitted trays we make.
Your dentist charges for a separate fee for office time when you need a refill? Or for the time needed for a shade check? Wow.
If you are in the process of whitening all follow up visits for shade checks are included in the initial fee at my office, as is the cost of all the bleaching gel needed to get good results. If you need a refill of the gel for a touch-up later on the office fee is built into the refill charge.
I don’t know anything about this product, but is there any chance it could be dangerous. Could it eat away at your teeth if used to often? Or have some other nasty side effects? Maybe they want it to go through a doctor that way if you are harmed in someway you can’t sue them, just the doctor who wasn’t keeping tabs on his/her patients. OR, is it covered by insuarance? If it is then they may make it go through a doctor so they can bill the insurance company $100 kit instead of selling it to wal-mart for $12 kit.
Here’s three sites I found very quickly in a yahoo search. I didn’t go through the ordering process (I did on one until I needed a CC) but at least on these ones it didn’t appear as though I needed to be a doctor to order them. Just out of curiosity do any of them say anything about being a sample, or not for resale? I wonder if the doctor is selling free samples from a company rep???
Sorry one more post…I wonder if it either was a prescription item at one time (in which cases you have old kits) or it’s going to be a prescription item, and it just isn’t right now?
Try an electric toothbrush and baking soda twice a week. I’ve got all my teeth, no cavities and they are sparkling white. I use my Oral B rotating toothbrush once a week with a bit of straight baking soda and polish them suckers like silver. Rest of the time is regular toothpaste w/ b/soda and peroxide 2-3 times a day.
Last time I went to the dentist he said my teeth didn’t need cleaning. I told him to do it anyway. He was amazed at a 42 year old with perfect teeth.
dentist.net is a good site, although the legality of selling prescription goods over the web is still a little hazy. Stick with the 7.5% solution, the other will make you say, “OUCH!”
You do not need to do touch-ups as frequently as you seem to be doing. A few days every 1 or 2 years should be sufficient. And you are definitely using too much gel if you need a new kit every time. One syringe should be enough for the touch-up. The leftovers can be stored in the fridge.
