Brushing your teeth with ultrasound or Air Flow before whitening helps to remove soft and hard dental plaque for the best effect of the whitening gel and penetration through the pores of the enamel, and also helps to determine the true color of the patient’s teeth.
Benefits:
✔ improves the whitening result;
✔ can lead to the rejection of whitening, as the removal of plaque will make the teeth lighter;
✔ prevention of periodontitis;
✔ prevention of caries.
Disadvantages:
– in the presence of inflammation of the gums or a significant amount of plaque and calculus, whitening may be postponed to the next session due to the abundant exudation and the impossibility of isolating the gums;
– bleeding gums are likely.
Types of cleansing performed by:
- Plaque indicator;
- Air Flow Teeth Cleaning;
- Polishing old fillings (to restore the gloss and smoothness of the surface); *
- Cleaning teeth with ultrasound (scaling); *
- Treatment dressing *
* if necessary
Forbidden:
– with a strong inflammatory process, or with a large amount of dental plaque, the whitening procedure should be carried out on the same day with the removal of dental deposits – it is prohibited
– removal of subgingival deposits
– use of high-quality powders