Downsview Dental Care In-House Versus Take-Home Teeth Whitening | Page 8

Your dentist will first examine your teeth to determine the cause and degree of
discoloring. The dentist will record the current shade of your teeth and will use
this to track your progress over the course of the treatment. After the evaluation,
your dentist will be able to advise if take-home teeth whitening is viable or
whether you will have to go with other options such as crowns and dental
veneers.
When you get the green light, the process of preparing your teeth for bleaching
begins. First, the teeth enamel is polished to remove dental decays on the teeth or
filling for better results when the shade begins changing. Scaling and polishing
are also done on the teeth that are going to be whitened. In the final stage of the
examination, your dental structure will be measured and the process of molding
bleach trays begins. Bleach trays act like dentine in which help spread the
bleaching solution evenly over teeth.