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Custom Trays

This technique has been around for many years and is the cheapest of the bleaching techniques but don't let this put you off. Despite costing less than alternative power bleaching systems it will match or, sometimes, exceed the tooth whitening acheived by these. It is a flexible and progressive technique that allows the client to acheive a lighter smile within a relatively short period of time.

Because the client keeps their close fitting trays at the end of the process it is easy to maintain their whiter smile by using top-up treatments which are cheap and effective.

Impressions are taken of your teeth and sent away to a registered dental laboratory where very close fitting trays are constructed. This ensures that your dental trays have a precise fit which is essential for effective tooth whitening. A whitening gel of carbamide peroxide is then used at night (minimum 3 hours) over a period of 2-3 weeks.

Advantages of this system

Cheapest of the techniques
Self administered
Simple technique
Top up treatment or prolonging the course is possible, cheap and easy
Gradual whitening allows some control over the final tooth colour

Disadvantages of this technique

Relatively slow process.

Because the shade change is more gradual with this technique patients sometimes feel that their teeth have not lightened as much as they had thought they would. When patients are shown their original shade after the whitening process they are pleasantly surprised. This happens because the eye gets used to each shade change day by day and registers the shade change as less dramatic. This may be considered to be an ADVANTAGE to those patients who want lighter teeth but want to control the degree of whitening!!(see above)

Requires some degree of manual dexterity to load trays

Cost £199