Given a limited budget that rules out any dentist whitening treatments, many people opt for off the counter DIY at home teeth bleaching products. The bleaching gel and teeth tray package is deemed to offer the nearest tooth whitening results comparable to prescription whitening treatments (although it may take a longer time). However, a common problem encountered by many people is the inconsistency in shade improvements.
There is a Smile Place Teeth Whitening System available from the UK at around £99 that offers customized dental trays that seems much more attractive to individuals with irregular teeth structure that have a hard time using those generic teeth trays that comes with off the shelf tooth bleaching gels, yet do not wish to invest heavily into a pair of customized teeth trays made professionally by your dentist (cost around $300).
The Smile Place Teeth Whitening System includes a set of clinical putty for making impressions of their teeth structure by the consumers themselves. The putty impressions are then mailed back to the SmilePlace company for making the final individualized dental trays. Do not worry about making a mistake and creating a poor fitting set of teeth trays. There are sufficient putty for two attempts to make a proper set of teeth impressions. This DIY approach to customizing teeth trays allow the consumers to save on the cost of the dentist factor (we are not questioning the dentist's qualifications, just wanna save some money in these tough times).
The Smile Place dental trays are packaged with a carbamide peroxide teeth whitening gel and you can choose from 3 different formulations depending on how bad your teeth discolorations are or whether you have sensitive teeth. Unfortunately, you cannot have the best of both worlds such as extra whitening strength for sensitive teeth. If you are unable to decide or this is your first attempt in DIY non-dentist teeth whitening, choose the regular one. This value in this product is definitely in the cheap custom made teeth trays, so everything else is a bonus.
How much carbide peroxide whitening teeth gel to use? How long to wear the SmilePlace dental trays?
Just squeeze sufficient gel to cover half the front side/slope of the tray which will whiten your front teeth which are noticable by others. Do not fill the tray completely with the peroxide teeth gel, or you waste too much of it and its quite messy to wipe them off your gums. Letting too much carbide peroxide gel touching the gums can lead to temporary sensitive gum problems in some people. The different gels will have different application time, so follow the instructions clearly. You should not be wearing the gel-filled trays for more than 2 hours everyday. If you start to get tooth sensitivity pains, reduce the time on wearing these dental trays but not less than 30mins. Otherwise, you get very little teeth whitening benefits. Instead, you can choose to bleach your teeth once every few days instead of daily to alleviate teeth aches.
If you feel that Smile Place is more adept at making teeth trays and not so much into the bleaching gels, then you can also choose to use your favorite brand such as the Opalescence PF 15% gel from UltraDent if it gives you more confidence.
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