Your personal instructions come first.
Use this page as a reminder of the guidance you received in the office. If anything here differs from the directions provided by your dentist, follow your dentist’s directions and call us with questions.
Protect Your Results
The first 48 hours are especially important because teeth are more susceptible to staining. As a simple rule, avoid anything that could stain a white shirt. Whitening does not change the color of fillings, crowns, or other restorations.
- Avoid coffee, tea, red wine, cola, berries, red sauces, soy sauce, and other dark foods or drinks.
- Use colorless toothpaste and mouthwash during the whitening period and for one additional week.
- Do not smoke or use tobacco while maintaining your whitening result.
Sensitivity
Sensitivity or brief “zingers” commonly last 24–72 hours and may occasionally linger longer. Use pain relief only as directed, avoid acidic drinks until sensitivity improves, and use a sensitivity toothpaste if recommended.
Take-Home Tray Care
- Brush and floss before use, then place only the instructed amount of gel in the tray.
- Wear trays for the period directed by the dental team and reduce wear time if sensitivity develops.
- Rinse trays with cool water and clean gently with a soft toothbrush and mild soap.
- Keep trays away from hot water, sunlight, pets, abrasive toothpaste, mouthwash, denture cleanser, alcohol, and hydrogen peroxide.
Call Us If
- Sensitivity is severe, wakes you, or does not begin to improve.
- Your gums are burned, blistered, or persistently irritated.
- A whitening tray is damaged or no longer fits.