Whitening Brown Spots on Teeth

Have you tried to teeth whiten­ing many times with­out suc­cess?  Do you have brown­ish or whitish patches on your teeth that just don’t change, no mat­ter what you’ve tried?  Have you tried the In-Office “Laser” Whiten­ing, the super-high con­cen­tra­tion gels, the Crest White Strips.…..EVERYTHING.….only to see your teeth the same after 2 weeks?

One of the most com­mon frus­tra­tions expe­ri­enced when peo­ple want to whiten their teeth, occurs when there are whitish and/or brown spots, because it can be very dif­fi­cult to get the spots “evened out,” and with brown spots, it seems they just don’t whiten at all! Or do they.….….…?

What Causes Brown and White Spots on Teeth?

Besides the usual causes of tooth stains (cof­fee, dark sodas and juices, tea, etc), there are sev­eral causes of really hard-to-get-out tooth discoloration:

• Excess flu­o­ride intake as a child
• Rheumatic fever as a child
• Tetra­cy­cline antibi­otics taken when young

Con­ven­tional whiten­ing has dif­fi­culty with these stains, because they are deep inside the teeth. But can it be done, and how?

How to Whiten Resis­tant Teeth Stains

First of all, it can be done, but only by a den­tist, because a strong acid must be used to open the enamel “pores,” so to speak, which will remove the dark min­eral stains. The key, though, is that the right min­er­als must imme­di­ately be applied to replace what is taken out. We use a rem­iner­al­iz­ing paste called MI Paste Plus, made by GC Amer­ica. This paste con­tains cal­cium, phos­phates, and flu­o­ride in just the right con­cen­tra­tions to rem­iner­al­ize teeth. We do this lit­er­ally moments after the acid etch is washed off, so you don’t walk around with weak­ened teeth. Addi­tional appli­ca­tions of the MI Paste are done by the patient every day, too, and the patient can even whiten their teeth, too.

Typ­i­cally, this process has to be repeated sev­eral times, and the darker the teeth are to begin, the longer it will take and the more office vis­its are needed. But the great news is that it CAN be done!

Case Study: Stacey and Her Brown-Spotted Teeth

Stacey was told she needed either bond­ing or porce­lain veneers to get rid of these incred­i­bly dark brown spots, but she didn’t want her teeth drilled, but reg­u­lar whiten­ing hadn’t worked at all. It took 4 in-office vis­its over 4 weeks, with at-home whiten­ing using Opales­cence Whiten­ing Gel and at-home appli­ca­tions of MI Paste Plus.

Need­less to say, Stacey is thrilled with her smile now!  And I thought it very cool when I showed these pic­tures to a vis­it­ing den­tal sales rep and for­mer hygien­ist, so she knows a bit about cos­metic den­tistry, but she thought we had done porce­lain veneers for Stacey!  She was shocked to learn that there was no drilling or den­tal work done at all.

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We’ll look for­ward to meet­ing you soon!