Cosmetic Dentistry

Everyone wants a brighter, more confident smile. Whitening or bleaching is an effective, safe and simple method of lightening the colour of your teeth. Our dentist can assess your teeth and advise you of the best technique available for you to achieve the smile you want.

Tooth discolouration can be caused by coffee, smoking, red wine, and ageing. Some antibiotics use e.g. tetracyclines can also discolour your teeth.

With Tooth Whitening, you can reverse tooth discolouration and rejuvenate your smile. Whiter teeth will make you look and feel years younger. Dentist-supervised teeth whitening involve the controlled use of carbamide or hydrogen peroxide, specific to the needs of each patient. Your dentist may provide in-office or at-home tooth whitening treatments or a combination of both.

It’s important to know that there’s a limit to how white natural teeth can get. We can’t, for example, achieve porcelain sink whiteness with whitening gels. A ‘movie star smile’ can only be created with multiple porcelain veneers or crowns. Some teeth are unfortunately resistant to gel-based whitening procedures. In these cases, other options can be recommended.

Teeth whitening is suitable for most adults, although we don’t advise it for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Before we whiten your teeth, we strongly recommend that you are cavity free and have no active gum disease. Hence, we require you to have a professional examination and clean prior to starting treatment. Effective and pain free whitening cannot be achieved where there are plaque and calculus deposits on the teeth surfaces and when there are cavities present. If your teeth are sensitive, we may need to include desensitising treatments into your whitening procedure.