Too white teeth?

[PaulaLollie]

Hi all, I am having a course of teeth whitening (Crest strips). You are supposed to use them for 1 hour everyday for 21 days.

However, 5 days in and I think my teeth are getting a bit too white already?! I am worried I will end up with a "denture-like", too fake look.

What would you do? Should I just stop using them? Or keep going and hope for he best? Do you have any experience with teeth whitening and if so, did you have trouble with "too white teeth"?

There is no reason to keep using them beyond the point where you like the way your teeth look. For some perspective I only use one every month or so.

Interestingly we were talking abut the Royal bride-to-be at work yesterday, and we all agreed that her teeth looked too fake because they were so white.

Are the Crest strips easy to use?

Just stop using them now if they are white enough. You’re not forced to use them for the full 21 days

There is definitely such a thing as "too white."

Can I ask where you buy them from? I used to get them on eBay but all of the sellers now look a bit dodgy.

Glubglub I bought them in the US when I went there for work last week!

Lonicera they are super easy to use and clearly very effective! They are giving me a bit of dental sensitivity, but nothing unbearable at the moment.

It’s weirdly ironic that the most charming teeth these days are proper teeth. Those who have whitened teeth look as if they are wearing bad false teeth. Teeth are not meant to be blindingly white.

I only found out the other far, watching NCIS , that it's possible to overbleach your teeth and they go transparent and your gums recede.

RoseWhiteTips- I do think whitened teeth can definitely look better than unwhitened, depending what colour they were before - as I get older mine look yellower and yellower, and I periodically give them a gentle whitening course which makes my general appearance fresher and brighter (and possibly younger).

My mum is in her 70s and her teeth now look brown. I don't want to go down that route.

But I never go very white. Just a clean ivory colour.

Bright paper white is not a good look, although it's apparently more acceptable in the US (according to my dentist, who advised against going too white).