Speaker 1: Even though Kor gives the least sensitivity out of all the bleaching products out there, sensitivity does happen sometimes. There are a few things that you can do. If you already know that you have sensitivity to, let’s say iced tea or when you’re eating ice cream, we should probably put you on a fluoride treatment about two weeks prior to starting bleaching. If you usually are okay and you do get sensitivity during the treatment, what we do recommend is for you to skip a day, so you will bleach one day, and then you’ll skip a day, and instead of bleaching, you will apply Sensodyne toothpaste in your trays. However, you will not wear them at night, you will wear them during the day for 30 minutes, and so on, and so on, until you do it for 28 days instead of 14 days, but you will still get beautiful results. Another thing that we can do is apply fluoride varnish. If you didn’t know that you would be sensitive and you don’t want to go through the two week fluoride treatment, it’s a one minute application that we can give you in the office that also helps with sensitivity. Saliva is the biggest enemy for the bleaching. It will degrade the product in about 30 minutes. That’s why it’s extremely important that you follow this instruction to the tee. You have to put on the trays with the gel immediately before bedtime. You can’t walk around watching TV and doing errands. It should be the last thing you do before going to bed. Our saliva production is way low at night, that’s why sometimes when we wake up we have dry mouth and that is the best time to bleach your teeth because you do want to have at least six hours of bleaching, if not ten. A few things that we do recommend to avoid during bleaching, is any food that stains your teeth, such as red wine, tea, coffee, any ethnic foods, if you like curry, ketchup, red sauce in pasta, anything red, yellow, green, and brown should be avoided for those two weeks. Your tubules, which are like little pores in your teeth, they’re opened up, so they’re actually more prone to pick up the stain as well during that process.
