An Insight Into Zoom! Whitening & Similar.

My dentist sent me home with some Day White whitening gel. I was pretty excited, I thought it would be easy, fast, and effective. But what I found out was actually something my dentist must have "forgotten" to mention.

Here's the story.
I put the Day White whitening gel into my retainer as I was told. As SOON as this stuff touched my teeth, it hurt. That instant, it got onto my gums, and felt as if it was eating away at them. Which later I came to realize was true. Then about forty minutes after experiencing very uncomfortable pain I felt a sharp shoot of pain in my back molar.

I started thinking to myself, "What?! What's going on!"

So I researched.

What I found out is that other people experienced this too. Sure, it whitens the teeth, but it eats away at the enamel and makes your teeth very sensitive for quite some time. Also It has been said that when you have it on for the full hour and a half, for however many days, that the sharp pains from inside your teeth last for days after.

A very uncomfortable, painful experience. I read that some people stayed in bed for days because they couldn't handle the pain. It also bleached my gums for about a half hour, and later I found my gums were inflamed. After I felt that first sign of pain, and looked it up, I took them right out and said, "It's not worth it." That's how intense the pain was. Now I don't know anything about the store brands, so don't think that's what I'm talking about. But it might be good to look into that before you buy. So you must ask yourself before make the decision to whiten, "Is it worth it?"