Today we continue with our four-part series on the many reasons that dentists and patients love the Opalescence® Tooth Whitening System. If you happened to miss the first part, no problem. Click here. Otherwise, let’s move forward with reasons 6-10. Check it out:

There is nothing one can do well, in a quality sense, when it comes to operative dentistry in the presence of bleeding. That is why I believe Ultradent’s tissue management line—most notably, ViscoStat® or Astringedent® X (in combination with the Metal Dento-Infuser® tip)—to undoubtedly be the most versatile products that we offer. They’re not only needed, but they’re absolutely paramount to the success of the greatest amount of dental procedures that a clinician performs.

Since its creation, the Opalescence® Tooth Whitening System has led the way in innovation and continuous improvement in the whitening market and shows no sign of stopping, as it remains the leader in professional tooth whitening today. Here’s a list of 20 reasons why dentists around the world choose Opalescence over any other system again and again. Check it out!

Many variables affect the final outcome of a restoration—be it technical difficulty, the quality of the preparation, the chosen composite resin used, etc. However, the impact of the success and longevity of a restoration’s cure is often ignored. Achieving a predictable, high-quality cure every time is critical to providing patients with the best care possible. Proximity (of the light) to the restoration, type of light being emitted, along with beam collimation and uniformity all influence the quality of any cure.

“Walking bleach,” or endodontic whitening, provides a whitening solution for the many patients with one or more non-vital teeth. Non-vital teeth often appear darker than the rest of a patient’s smile due to internal bleeding caused by trauma, the presence of necrotic debris, or pigmentation as a result of previously used endodontic treatment materials. Thus, unlike most whitening cases where discoloration is caused by external staining to vital teeth (usually due to smoking, eating, and/or drinking habits,) as the pre-fix “endo” suggests, endodontic whitening, or walking bleach, is used when discoloration comes from the inside out.

In the early years of my career, the advent of braided retraction cords were a big improvement over the twisted cords of the past, although despite the improvement, I often found that these “new and improved” cords could still be too rigid. This, due to the fact that 99% of the component of the fiber in braided cords runs close to parallel to the long access of the cord—making it so that pushing down on one end of the cord caused the length of the cord behind that area to rise.

“PermaFlo DC, a composite luting/restorative material, has some unique capabilities. It has been put under the category of “dual-cure” because that’s well known to dentists. However, in reality, an actual dual-cure product would be able to be a stand-alone light cure product. Or, it would be a stand-alone chemical cure product in two separate, disconnected syringes,” Dr. Fischer, Ultradent founder, and president remarks. “The challenge with that, for years, was that all ‘dual-cure composites’, if used only in the chemical cure mode, would never polymerize as completely as they should, and would never come out as strong as they could if they had been light activated.” He continues, “Where dentists really need a ‘dual-cure,’ is where adequate light can’t reach in the restoration to assure quality polymerization, like with an opacious crown or a restoration in the deep interproximal area, subgingivally.”

Step One Grip the tab at the top of the matrix band with the pin tweezers. Practice getting comfortable using the tweezers, as the top of the tweezers work by pressing to open, and the bottom of the tweezers work by pressing to grip. The tab on side of the band are for removal after use.

“I could talk for a very long time about what makes Peak Universal Bond the best bonding agent on the market,” says Dr. Fischer, founder, president and CEO of Ultradent Products, Inc. Although the statement may at first come off overly self-assured, it is in fact, quite the opposite. Peak Universal Bond comes from an arduous, more than two-decade quest of trial and error after trial and error.