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Is Your Teeth Whitening System Making Your Teeth Whiter?

Commercial teeth whitening products have grown exponentially over the last 20 years.  The market has grown so much that even toothpastes want a piece of the action. If you’d walked down the toothpaste aisle at Wal-Mart 20 years ago, you’d have noticed that “Tartar Control” were the two big buzzwords. Nowadays, “Whitening” seems to be [...]

Does At-Home Teeth Whitening Really Whiten Your Teeth?

A few months ago, one of my patients asked me if the whitening products that you can buy from the store actually whiten your teeth.  She wasn’t too excited about the expensive price that our dental school charges for a custom bleaching tray and professional-strength bleach. She was looking for a cheaper alternative.  There’s nothing [...]

Teeth Whitening: Two Side Effects of Whitening Your Teeth

Did you know that more than half of all people who bleach their teeth end up with sensitive teeth as a result?  It seems like people are willing to go through a lot just to get whiter teeth.  In this article, I’m going to talk about the two main side effects of whitening your teeth: [...]

A Full List of Dental Products with the ADA Seal

Not many people are aware that the American Dental Association keeps an updated list on their website of all of the dental products that have received the ADA Seal of Acceptance. You can view and print the entire list of ADA Accepted dental products here in PDF format. When people think of the ADA Seal, [...]

Teeth Whitening and Teeth Bleaching: The Difference

When our permanent teeth first come into our mouths, they are nice and white.  Not quite as white as our baby teeth were, but they are still a respectable shade of white. Over time, as we eat different foods our teeth begin to lose their bright white luster.  Eventually our teeth’s enamel, the outermost layer [...]

Teeth Whitening Scam Company Sells Defective Teeth Whitening Gel

Today, I watched a news report about a teeth whitening scam company called White Overnight. The news report was able to uncover some interesting facts about what this company does. I have embedded the news report below, at the end of this article. Here’s some of the things that the Channel 2 News special investigative [...]

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