{"id":1668,"date":"2020-09-21T22:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2020-09-21T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:35:35","slug":"bleaching-your-teeth-with-clorox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/bleaching-your-teeth-with-clorox\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleaching Your Teeth With Clorox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have some household bleach and wondered if that would work for whitening my teeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Danny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Danny,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bleaching_trays.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bleaching_trays.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bleaching_trays-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Tooth Bleaching Trays<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is very possible it will whiten your teeth, I&#8217;m going to steer you a different direction. Bleach is a base. You may be familiar with another base&#8211;lye, which is extremely corrosive. Bleach is corrosive to organic tissue in a similar way.  In fact, many dentists use it in a root canal treatment to dissolve the dead organic tissue left in the tooth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid if you used the bleach from your home, it will damage the tissue inside your mouth. This will cause you a significant amount of unnecessary problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Safest Way to Whiten Your Teeth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you truly want to whiten your teeth, there are a few ways to safely go about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you could use over the counter Crest Whitestrips. These will whiten your teeth, albeit much more slowly than professional whitening, so you will have to use quite a few kits. They also have the limitation of only affecting the front six teeth unless you wear more than one strip on each arch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, you can do at home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/category\/teeth-whitening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professional teeth whitening<\/a>.  This method uses bleaching trays like the ones pictured above. These are custom-fitted to your teeth and your dentist provides you with a strong bleaching gel to wear in them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, if you are in a hurry, you can do in-office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/zoom_whitening.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom Whitening<\/a>. This will whiten your teeth in just one appointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any one of those are safer options than using household bleach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog is brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lafayette, LA Dentists<\/a> Dr. Thimmesch and Foreman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some household bleach and wondered if that would work for whitening my teeth. Danny Dear Danny, While it is very possible it will whiten your teeth, I&#8217;m going to steer you a different direction. Bleach is a base. You may be familiar with another base&#8211;lye, which is extremely corrosive. Bleach is corrosive to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog\/bleaching-your-teeth-with-clorox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bleaching Your Teeth With Clorox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[779],"tags":[815,814,619,356],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teeth-whitening","tag-bleaching-teeth-with-household-bleach","tag-crest-whitestrips","tag-tooth-bleaching","tag-zoom-whitening"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bleaching Your Teeth With Clorox - 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