Your teeth may not be as white and bright as you would like because teeth naturally yellow with age. In addition, certain foods, caffeine drinks, cigarettes, wine, and even antibiotics can leave your teeth stained or discoloured.

Refresh your smile with tooth whitening

If you would like to restore a healthy, white colour to your teeth, modern tooth whitening techniques can help. At Smile For Life we offer an extensive range of options to help you achieve a brighter smile.

Using safe, simple, and effective methods, we can provide you with professional tooth whitening in our pleasant and comfortable office environment, and it only takes a little over an hour. We can also tell you how to whiten your teeth at home with professional quality whitening gel.

You choose the method: Professional in-office or at-home whitening

Our Melbourne tooth whitening process involves the use of a bleaching agent that effectively lightens the shade of the outer layer of tooth enamel before penetrating through to the inner layer of dentin for deep rooted whiteness. The bleaching agent is applied in one of two ways, depending on your preference.

The first method involves our staff applying a high-concentration peroxide gel to your teeth using a tray that fits snugly next to your teeth. Next, we use a light source to speed up the bleaching process. Light-accelerated teeth whitening uses a light energy, such as halogen, LED, or plasma arc, in the blue light spectrum to initiate the hydrogen peroxide reaction. This method is quick—it can be completed in about an hour—and is performed by our professional staff. This method gives you the best results in the shortest amount of time, and leaves your teeth up to 8 shades whiter.

The second method is similar to the first but is done at home. You wear a thin, lightweight, customised mouth guard to hold the bleaching gel against your teeth, and you apply the gel each night for approximately two weeks. This at-home method uses a lower-concentration peroxide gel, but it is applied to your teeth over a longer period of time, so the results are similar to the in-office method.

While some tooth whitening products available in the store can offer a short term solution to discolouring, they often prove to be superficial and inconsistent because the peroxide concentration in the gel is very low. Smile for Life is one of the few offices in Melbourne to offer the three most successful products in tooth whitening: BriteSmile and Zoom 3^rd Generation from Discus Dental, Opalescence from Gunz, and Polar White from Southern Dental Industries. Please contact us to learn more about teeth whitening in our office or at home.