Smile Gallery: General Dentistry and Preventive Dentistry

This lady had an important event coming up later in the year. She did the right thing and got in early to make an improvement in her smile. She was in her 40’s and felt her teeth had become more yellow. We are often asked, “Why have my teeth turned yellow?” As we age the nerve and pulp vessels can shrink as the dentine lays down more tooth structure. Sometimes this secondary dentine is quite dark. In addition, the enamel can have some signs of thinning. These factors and just some of the elements that contribute to the loss of ...

This patient had a knock to her tooth when she was a teenager. It had been a different colour for a long time. It seemed to be getting darker as she got older and our patient asked about her options. Dr Gourlay suggested she start by trying whitening before deciding if veneers would be needed. She used custom made trays with gingival seal and night whitening for 2 weeks. She then used the whitening gel on the darker tooth for another week. She was very happy with the result and no further treatment was needed.

Our lovely patient wanted to do something about the brown markings on her teeth that were darkening as she headed into her late forties. Her background colour was A2. What worried her was the darker brown markings that were A4. She did not want to incur the biologic cost of loss of enamel that comes with ceramic veneers. These stubborn brown types of markings are challenging to improve.  Dr Gourlay recommended that she use our night whitening gel which is a 16% carbamide peroxide. This gel was used in custom made trays with a gingival seal overnight for 2 weeks. ...