OK, a home teeth whitening kit can save time and money, but is it safe?

Teeth whitening kits continue to be proven both a safe and effective way to brighten your smile and fade discoloration on your teeth. With some common sense, it’s safe, easy, gentle and very effective. The products and ingredients used in tooth whitening or tooth bleaching have been in use for years.

Whiter teeth can be yours at home in less than 30 days for a lot less than the cost of dental whitening treatments. Home teeth whitening kits typically include enough product to brighten and clean almost any normal staining that has occurred over the years. The whitener kit includes the whitening gel product that actually does the work and a method to hold the gel against your teeth. This is usually a mouthpiece very similar to those used in athletics and sports.

The high quality home whitening kits have material to have a custom mouthpiece or tray made by a qualified dental lab. These are much more comfortable and better fitting because they're built to your exact mouth. Another way to create the mouthpiece trays is the boil and bite method. These are much more like sports mouthpieces in that they're formed to your teeth by heating the tray, the biting down and holing in your mouth until cool. This method is called thermoforming but is not usually painful as the material used softens with just a little heat from hot water and should not be heated enough to actually burn.

Using a custom or semi-custom tray mold of your teeth, a small amount of tooth whitening bleach products is then placed in the molds. The molds are held between your teeth making certain the whitening gel is against your tooth enamel. Hold times are dependant on the strength of the product used, it's quality, and the speed which you need results. By using a high quality whitening gel, a little goes a long way. The gels come in a variety of pleasant tasting flavors and the trays are very comfortable especially if they were custom created for your mouth.

So the home teeth whitening kits are now available for not only a single person but also come in couple and family packages at substantial cost savings. Home whiteners are both an effective way to have a cleaner looking smile while saving a lot of money over commercial cosmetic dentistry charges.