Whether you’re a smoker, coffee drinker, chocolate eater, or simply just a victim of time’s unavoidable effects, odds are your teeth aren’t as white as they could be. If you want to brighten up that smile and go the whitening route, there are many avenues you can explore. But which works best – professional cleaning or home remedies?
You can literally find dental whitening services everywhere. Even on a classified site like americanlisted.com, you will find multiple money-off coupons for professional whitening procedures; and if you ever pay attention to the retail stores, you’ll find dozens upon dozens of home-use whitening products.
Each has its benefits and each has its drawbacks. Let’s start first with professional cleaning.
Professional cleaning yields the best results in the least amount of time. Usually with one visit, a dentist—or dental care professional—is able to achieve great results. But this can get very expensive. You might have to put up your car or furniture for sale in order to pay off the bill, and odds are good that insurance isn’t going to cover you.
Next up, we have the home products. While these are very effective and certainly less expensive, their results are anything but instant. With those whitening strips and gels and other products, it takes repeated usage. This is bad if you can’t break the coffee habit.
So it all boils down to what your personal preference is. If you don’t mind waiting a few weeks and won’t spoil the results with any harmful substances, then home products are probably your best bet. You’ll save a lot of money and get the same results.
If you want speedy results, though, a professional is the way to go. Sure, you might have to join the list of people with cars and computers for sale in Arizona or Nebraska in order to pay for it, but it’s a simple in-and-out procedure that yields results on the first visit.