Teeth Whitening After Braces – Is It Possible?
The first thing patients want to do once their dental braces are taken off is to have their teeth whitened. After so many years of wearing them day in and day out, the least you want to give yourself is a dazzling white smile in the mirror.
You can do this by investing in teeth whitening after braces are taken off. These days, this has become an inexpensive and routine procedure for dentists which give powerful and perfect results.
Once your dental braces are taken off, your dentist will remove any bonding or glue and clean your teeth. Due to the constant wearing of dental braces, your teeth are sure to lose their natural color or whiteness. With a clean-up job done, you can now decide if you wish to have them further whitened.
How to choose between teeth whitening options?
Removing teeth whitening braces as an in-office treatment in your dentist’s office is sure to knock you back by $500 (₤250). However, you can opt for laser whitening and go home an hour later with a perfectly white smile. Done by a professional, it will be fast and precise, so don’t worry.
Some dentists offer tray whitening services too which lessens the yellowness of your teeth, making them lighter and more acceptable. Besides, there are also white strips which are also effective, though the results are only temporary. However, now dentists recommend that an electric toothbrush with soft bristles is the best answer to teeth whitening after braces.
Your dentist might first do an in-office treatment of whitening your teeth with a strong bleach solution, followed up by a kit to be used at home, which works with a weak bleach solution.
Home kits
If you decide to ditch your dentist and go it alone, you’ll have a mind-boggling range of DIY kits to choose from. Which should you choose? That depends on your need for teeth whitening, your budget and the time you have to devote to this.
Sensitive teeth
Now that you’ve given up your teeth whitening braces, don’t immediately go in for a teeth whitening job. Instead, if you find that you have sensitive teeth, remedy the situation by brushing your sensitive teeth with toothpaste for sensitive teeth for about two weeks before you decide to whiten them. Follow this up with a whitening gel, with peroxide content of about 12% to 16%. You won’t experience any teeth sensitivity with this and your teeth will whiten too.
Keep that bleach on
If you put on a weak bleaching solution on your teeth, you’ll have to keep it on longer fore results to show. Also, a lot depends on how much peroxide you can stand and the time you can give for this project. A weak solution kept on for a week will produce the same results as a strong solution kept on for a few hours.
