Complications from the Use of Peroxides
Fig. 4.1 Traditional tray showing (a) the evident possibility of direct contact of the bleaching gel (arrow) with soft tissue and (b) the scalloped tray, 0.5 mm short of the…
Intracoronal Whitening of Endodontically Treated Teeth
Fig. 8.1 Causes of intrinsic stains 8.2.1 Systemic Causes of Posteruptive Intrinsic Stains The developing dentition can be affected by a number of systemic factors, including metabolic and genetic diseases…
Introduction to Tooth Whitening
Date Name Material used Discoloration 1799 Macintosh (Dwinelle 1850) Invented chloride of lime (called bleaching powder) 1848 Dwinelle (1850) Chloride of lime Nonvital teeth 1860 Truman (1889) Chloride and…
At-Home Tray Whitening and Enamel Microabrasion
Fig. 12.1 (a, b) Pre-operative view of the discolored maxillary central incisors displaying brown stains caused by fluorosis The patient agreed with the treatment plan. After preliminary impressions and fabrication…
Human Pulpal Responses to Peroxides
Fig. 5.1 Patient subjected to a professional in-office tooth bleaching therapy, which can be esthetically regarded as a success. However, the patient reported postbleaching sensitivity in the anterior teeth (Images…
Resin Infiltration After Enamel Etching
Fig. 10.1 Schematic illustration of the origin of the whitish opaque appearance of initial caries and developmental defects. (a) Sound enamel is relatively translucent for visible light. Light beams (arrows)…
Tooth Whitening: How Does It Work
This type of cleavage is favored by light and heat and forms free radicals. Heterolytic cleavage, which is a deprotonation reaction leaving an electron pair: This deprotonation occurs at increased…
Overall Safety of Peroxides
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Jorge Perdigão (ed.)Tooth Whitening10.1007/978-3-319-38849-6_3 3. Overall Safety of Peroxides Yiming Li1, 2 (1) Center for Dental Research, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, 11175 Campus Street, Loma Linda, CA 92350,…
Atlas of Salivary Gland Surgery
15 Atlas of Salivary Gland Surgery SNEHAL G. PATEL Surgical resection is the most commonly employed treatment modality for tumors of the salivary glands. Safe and effective surgery of the…
Benign Tumors, Cysts, and Tumor-like Conditions of the Salivary Glands.
9 Benign Tumors, Cysts, and Tumor-like Conditions of the Salivary Glands ROBERT L. WITT AND SUSAN J. MAYGARDEN Three percent of head and neck tumors and 0.5% of all tumors…
