Teeth Whitening

Teeth whitening involves bleaching the teeth to lighten their colour. After treatment, the teeth look a few shades whiter.

The bleach soaks through the tooth’s enamel top layer and into the dentine (inner yellow layer). The bleach reacts with the coloured molecules that cause discolouration to cause the dentine to become lighter and in turn the teeth looking whiter. Bleach can also make the enamel surface more reflective, which looks whiter as well.

At Murray Dental, we take moulds of your teeth to custom make trays that fit only you. We find that by getting you to bleach your teeth over several nights at home you get a better result as well as less sensitivity. In the future, you can easily rebleach your teeth as needed.