VITAL BLEACHING: A REVIEW AND CASE REPORTS.

The importance of tooth whitening for patients has shown a dramatic increase in the number of products and procedures over recent years. Vital tooth bleaching refers to chair-side clinical application of a chemical solution to a tooth surface in order to achieve whitening effect of the teeth. Vital bleaching has found to be very effective but it also has its drawbacks. The current article gives knowledge of vital tooth whitening with respect to external bleaching methods. The external bleaching of vital teeth focuses on patient selection, mechanisms, bleaching procedure and various in office bleaching systems and techniques and their disadvantages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]