It is no secret to anyone that a beautiful smile is characterized by a few teeth white and gleaming, but is this good?. To answer this question we must start from a fact that few people have in mind: the natural color of the teeth is not white. Tooth whitening techniques there are variety of treatments to whiten your teeth, however the most commonly used are those which consist in applying a series of gels over the teeth that, thanks to its chemical composition, reduce various tones color of denture. The gels used to do so are generally based on Carbamide Peroxide-based hydrogen peroxide, also with a concentration of 35% or 35%. This kind of gels are usually applied by a dentist as main part of treatment (which generally takes 1 hour), to then be complemented with gels and home use toothpastes that contain the same components but at lower concentration. Tooth whitening addiction there are people who are so obsessed by the fact of having a few teeth whites who become addicted to tooth whitening.

This behavior is known as Blancorexia. In principle, tooth whitening done adequately by oral health professionals should not have negative effects on teeth, however abuse of treatments to keep teeth white, in any of its forms, if they can generate problems in teeth in the medium and long term. According to studies long term of twelve years of duration, repeated use of treatments to whiten teeth can cause damage to enamel and the inside of the tooth. Even some studies have described irreversible damage to the tooth structure, as reabsorption of the roots of the teeth, destructions of prismatic layers, chronic pulpitis, which can result in costly endodontic treatments, or in the worst cases, the loss of teeth.