Question: How Often Can You Whiten Your Teeth?
“There's no real set-fast rule on how often you can whiten your teeth. Most people, we recommend every six months to once a year.”
How Often Can You Whiten Your Teeth?
By Amber-Lee, IRDH16 Years Experience
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Quick Answer
There is no fixed rule, but for most people Amber-Lee recommends whitening every six months to once a year. The usual side effect is temporary sensitivity. Whitening also has a ceiling: teeth only get as white as their own natural shade, so whitening more often than that adds sensitivity without adding brightness.
More about professional teeth whitening in Riverview.
Answered by the team at Bright White Dental Hygiene Clinic in Riverview, NB, serving Moncton and Dieppe.
Key Takeaways
- 1Every six months to once a year suits most people.
- 2Teeth only whiten to their own natural shade, never paper white.
- 3Sensitivity is the usual side effect, and it passes.
Video Transcript: How Often Can You Whiten Your Teeth?
Full transcript of the video answer on how often you can whiten your teeth, given by Amber-Lee, IRDH, at Bright White Dental Hygiene Clinic in Riverview, NB, serving Moncton and Dieppe.
Why Whitening Has a Ceiling
In Amber-Lee's words from an earlier answer: the gel goes inside your tooth and removes the internal stain, which makes your teeth as white as they naturally are. Once that stain is gone there is nothing left to lift. That is why a top-up every six to twelve months makes sense, and whitening every few weeks does not.
What Moves Your Schedule
Coffee, tea, red wine and smoking stain teeth faster, so people who have them every day tend to want a top-up closer to six months. People who avoid them often go a year or longer.
Custom take-home trays make top-ups simpler, because you keep the trays and reuse them for years. They cost $300 plus tax at Bright White. One-hour in-chair whitening is $350 plus tax.
Who Should Start With a Cleaning Instead
If it has been a while since your last cleaning, start there. Whitening over tartar and surface stain gives an uneven result. And if most of what you want whiter is a crown, filling or veneer, whitening will not change it: those materials keep their colour.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions people search right after this one.
Every six months to once a year is what Amber-Lee recommends for most people. Your stain habits and how sensitive your teeth are decide where in that range you land.
Follow the box, which usually means a set number of days in a row and then a break. Repeating courses back to back is where sensitivity builds up. If you whiten often, custom trays fit your teeth, so the gel stays on the teeth and off the gums.
Whitening past your natural shade is not possible, so doing it too often mostly adds sensitivity. Space treatments out and let sensitivity settle before the next one.
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