
This lecture covers the current tooth whitening techniques used in dental practice, focusing on new whitening innovations for 2024.
Discussing the classification of bleaching techniques into three categories is vital in order to assist with predicable treatment planning for the various tooth whitening programmes required to obtain successful outcomes.
The evaluation of new patients requesting bleaching will be explained, along with the management of bleaching-related sensitivity and how to combine tooth whitening techniques with minimally invasive aesthetic dentistry.
This lecture will aim to provide delegates with an in-depth knowledge of tooth whitening and dental bleaching to achieve successful results for their patients and practice.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the scientific basis of bleaching, having acquired knowledge and understanding of the process
- Summarise key points of the EU directive concerning tooth whitening products
- Identify the various dental bleaching techniques
- Clarify the answers to patients’ questions and concerns regarding dental bleaching
- Summarise the causes of sensitivity and patient management during treatment
- Apply the knowledge of shade assessments for dental bleaching
- Use the knowledge gained to implement dental bleaching photography, following the standard images required
- Recognise the consent process and information patients require prior to undertaking tooth whitening procedures
- Discuss strategies to manage problems associated with tooth whitening and dental bleaching.
Linda Greenwall
Dr Linda Greenwall was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and following in her father’s and grandfather’s footsteps (both dentists), she graduated from Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1984. She is an international lecturer and an authority on tooth whitening and aesthetic dentistry as well as running a multidisciplinary private practice in London where she specialises in restorative dentistry and prosthodontics.
Her first book, Bleaching Techniques in Restorative Dentistry, won the award for Best New Dental Book 2001. Linda lectures extensively in the UK and internationally on tooth bleaching, aesthetic dentistry, practice management and controversies surrounding tooth whitening. She has written many papers for dentistry magazines, and was editor-in-chief of the journal Aesthetic Dentistry Today. Her latest book Success Strategies for the Aesthetic Dental Practice has recently been published by Quintessence.
In 2008, Linda launched and currently chairs the British Dental Bleaching Society (BDBS), which aims to lobby for changes in the controversial bleaching legislation, and to educate dentists in tooth whitening. In 2011 she launched the Dental Wellness Trust (DWT), a charity aiming to raise dental awareness in less fortunate communities around the world.
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