Brite smile whitening
Professional whitening uses a peroxide gel to break down tooth stains, while a dental examination checks whether whitening fits your enamel and existing.
The short answer
Professional whitening uses a peroxide gel to break down tooth stains, while a dental examination checks whether whitening fits your enamel and existing dental work.
What is the direct answer?
What does this question mean?
Brite Smile refers to a cosmetic whitening procedure that usually places peroxide gel on the visible teeth and activates it with a dental light. It changes the colour of natural enamel, but not fillings, crowns, veneers, or implants.
What can you do next?
A clinician examines the teeth and gums, records the starting shade, protects the soft tissues, applies the selected gel, and controls exposure before rinsing and checking the result. Tooth sensitivity or gum irritation can influence the plan.
When should you seek dental care?
Arrange an examination before treatment if you have cavities, cracked teeth, gum inflammation, exposed roots, or unexplained sensitivity. Seek prompt care for facial swelling, severe pain, or an injury rather than treating those symptoms with whitening.
What should you ask the dentist?
Ask which stains are likely to respond, which restorations will remain unchanged, how the gums will be protected, and what desensitising plan is available if sensitivity develops.
Frequently asked questions
Can home care replace a dental examination?
Home care may ease a symptom, but it cannot identify or correct decay, infection, gum disease, a crack, or a failing restoration.
What changes make this more urgent?
Rapid worsening, swelling, fever, heavy bleeding, severe pain, or difficulty swallowing or breathing calls for prompt dental or emergency assessment.