Teeth whitening treatments: an overview

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Harsh Parmar, Sameer Zope, Ketki Kulkarni and Vamshi Nizampuram

Dental aesthetics is an important part of clinical practice in today’s time. Since bleaching is most conservative, less destructive, and economical, it is most opted method by the people for tooth whitening. This review article will help clinicians understand bleaching procedures, bleaching types, components, mechanisms, and their effects on soft tissue, tooth structures, sensitivity and restorations. However, because of the variability in experimental design, there is a lack of consensus concerning the bleaching effects on tooth and its surrounding tissues and further studies need to be done over it.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.19616.3794
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