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Smile pro whitening

Professional whitening uses a peroxide gel to lighten natural tooth colour after an examination checks enamel, gums, fillings, and sensitivity risks.

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What is the direct answer?

Professional whitening uses a peroxide gel to lighten natural tooth colour after an examination checks enamel, gums, fillings, and sensitivity risks.

What does this question mean?

Professional whitening uses peroxide gel to oxidize coloured molecules in enamel and dentine. It does not whiten crowns, veneers, or fillings.

What can you do next?

The dentist checks cavities, cracks, gum inflammation, exposed roots, and restorations before choosing a custom tray or protected in-office application.

When should you seek dental care?

Have darkening, pain, a single grey tooth, or gum burns assessed before whitening. Decay or pulp disease needs treatment first.

What should you ask the dentist?

Ask what will whiten, whether restorations will match afterward, and how sensitivity or exposed dentine will be managed.

Frequently asked questions

Could this need treatment rather than home care?

Have darkening, pain, a single grey tooth, or gum burns assessed before whitening.

What should I ask at an appointment?

Ask what will whiten, whether restorations will match afterward, and how sensitivity or exposed dentine will be managed.