Successful Professional Teeth Whitening involves striking a balance between ‘Time take to achieve Results’ and ‘Customer Comfort and Safety’.
Asked if they would prefer to take a little longer to achieve whitening results, if extra time meant they would not have to endure swollen and irritated lips or gums, or even severe tooth sensitivity, Customers answered they would prefer their practitioner to take extra time and care over their procedure.
This is also good business practice! A Customer who has a bad experience is unlikely to undergo a similar procedure again!
Yet, a customer who undergoes teeth whitening who does not see measurable results IMMEDIATELY is just as unlikely to be a happy, satisfied customer, and is unlikely to repeat the experience.
The solution to this problem lies in setting proper and realistic expectations with regard to a teeth whitening procedure that operates well within the boundaries of safety.
Our first recommendation is that you request the use of Carbamide Peroxide gel. Now it is true that some will claim that faster results will be obtained by using Hydrogen Peroxide gels, and that may well be true, but it also carries with it more risk of burning to the lips and gums. Even when the gel is applied using mouth trays, inevitably some of the gel will be squeezed out over the tray top and contact the gums and/or the inside of the mouth and lips.
This WILL hurt. Guaranteed. Hydrogen Peroxide is used by commercial carpet cleaners for removing stains from carpets. The Hydrogen Peroxide solution they use is at a 12% concentration – the same as that used legally in your home by mobile Teeth Whitening practitioners – yet if you took some of that Hydrogen Peroxide solution and placed it on your skin, it WILL burn! Those commercial cleaners who carry 12% hydrogen peroxide with them also need a poisons handling certificate, and by law carry a chemical specifications document with them outlining the treatment required if the chemicals are mishandled.
That’s not to say that Hydrogen Peroxide CANT be used safely. Just that it does present a greater risk to client comfort, all for the sake of saving a few minutes of time.
So, ask for Carbamide Peroxide whitening gels. With MOST people, Carbamide Peroxide can contact their lips and gums for quite significant periods of time – many minutes in fact – without causing discomfort.
Secondly, you should be realistic about the results that can be achieved.
It is not uncommon for a 40 minute session utilizing Carbamide Peroxide gel to lighten teeth 4 shades or even more. Sometimes as much as 6 – 8 shades. What this means is that if your teeth are heavily stained, or at the high end of moderate staining, you might not get your teeth to the shade of whiteness that nature intended in just one session. You will definitely see results, and you will LOVE the whiter, brighter smile, but it will likely NOT be the maximum result possible for your teeth.
So if your teeth ARE moderately or heavily stained, be prepared to book TWO whitening sessions of 40 minutes to 1 hour to get teeth looking their best.
Resist the temptation to ask for sessions longer than 1 hour. This is possible to safely arrange using Carbamide Peroxide (but it is questionable that this would be advisable using Hydrogen Peroxide), our experience shows that better results come from two 60 minute sessions, at least 2 weeks apart, and not more than 3 months apart. Many teeth whitening practitioners offer a discount to customers wanting to take this safer approach to teeth whitening.
CelebritySmile, who provide Teeth Whitening in Auckland have used this method successfully for some time, for many very satisfied customers.
Their procedures WORK. They are SAFE. Their procedures have fewer side effects.
You can trust CelebritySmile to whiten your teeth – they will always err on the side of caution and place your comfort and safety first.