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Ordi­nary paste (most often called hygien­ic or treat­ment-and-pro­phy­lac­tic), which most peo­ple use dai­ly, removes only soft plaque. To clean the col­ored plaque that appears after pro­longed use of col­or­ing drinks (cof­fee, black tea, red wine), as well as smok­er’s plaque, it is nec­es­sary to brush your teeth with whiten­ing pastes.

It is worth point­ing out that whiten­ing paste bright­ens the enam­el only by a cou­ple of tones and can­not be used reg­u­lar­ly to main­tain tooth sen­si­tiv­i­ty.

Top 10 effective and inexpensive whitening toothpastes

1. PRESIDENT PROFI PLUS White Plus

One of the most effec­tive whiten­ing tooth­pastes. Due to the high abra­sive­ness, this paste removes col­ored plaque and small tar­tar. The extract from the moss soft­ens the plaque, which makes it easy to clean it in the future.

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2. PRESIDENT Black

This paste effec­tive­ly light­ens pig­men­ta­tion. Its fea­ture is black col­or due to char­coal. Pineap­ple extract helps to soft­en plaque and then clean it eas­i­ly. Pyrophos­phates do not allow the for­ma­tion of soft plaque, and then tar­tar.

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3. LACALUT White

This paste is suit­able even for sen­si­tive teeth (due to the flu­o­ride con­tent). Helps to strength­en the enam­el, pre­vents the appear­ance of tar­tar. The appli­ca­tion must be course­work.

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4. ROCS — Sensational Whitening

The paste whitens teeth due to the high con­tent of abra­sive-pol­ish­ing ele­ments. Brome­lain helps to soft­en the pig­ment plaque. The addi­tion­al con­tent of cal­ci­um and mag­ne­sium com­pounds has a pos­i­tive effect on tooth enam­el, pro­vid­ing its rem­iner­al­iza­tion. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the man­u­fac­tur­er did not indi­cate the abra­sive­ness index, so it is impos­si­ble to say for sure about the safe­ty of its use.

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5. SPLAT Professional Whitening Plus

Whiten­ing paste, which, accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, ensures the restora­tion of enam­el. Due to the abra­sive ele­ments, pig­ment plaque is cleansed (pro­longed use of black tea, cof­fee, red wine, cig­a­rettes). The pyrophos­phate present in the com­po­si­tion pre­vents the appear­ance of tar­tar. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the abra­sive­ness coef­fi­cient is not indi­cat­ed, so you should not abuse this tooth­paste.

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6. Blend-a-med 3D White LUX

It con­tains only one abra­sive-pol­ish­ing ele­ment, which pro­vides cleans­ing from plaque. Pyrophos­phates pre­vent the appear­ance of pig­ments and their sub­se­quent con­ver­sion into tar­tar. The man­u­fac­tur­er also has tooth­pastes “Pearl Extract”, “Healthy Radi­ance”. The com­po­si­tion of all pastes is approx­i­mate­ly the same, so dif­fer­ent names are just mar­ket­ing.

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7. SPLAT EXTREME White

This prod­uct may be a com­bi­na­tion prod­uct. How­ev­er, a very low con­tent of hydro­gen per­ox­ide deriv­a­tive can­not effec­tive­ly affect the enam­el. There­fore, the main effect is due to abra­sive-pol­ish­ing ele­ments, as well as plant pro­te­olyt­ic (par­tic­i­pat­ing in the decom­po­si­tion of pro­teins) enzymes.

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8. Crest Baking Soda & Peroxide WHITENING

Paste from the Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­er Proc­ter & Gam­ble. The price is high­er than that of pastes from the mass mar­ket and it is rather dif­fi­cult to find them, but the high qual­i­ty makes it pos­si­ble to clas­si­fy it in the TOP-10. Whiten­ing occurs by remov­ing pig­ment plaque and by bright­en­ing the enam­el when exposed to cal­ci­um per­ox­ide. The taste of the paste is rel­a­tive­ly unpleas­ant — soda. Not rec­om­mend­ed for use in indi­vid­u­als with sen­si­tive teeth.

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9. REMBRANDT® DEEPLY WHITE + Peroxide

The famous pas­ta from an Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­er, which is active­ly used all over the world. Impor­tant­ly, this paste can be used with­in two months after tooth­pastes with increased abra­sive­ness. Also involved in whiten­ing is papain (papaya extract), a plant enzyme that decom­pos­es pro­tein com­po­nents.

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10. Biomed White Complex

This paste is con­sid­ered as nat­ur­al as pos­si­ble (98% nat­ur­al ingre­di­ents). Whiten­ing occurs due to three types of coal. Brome­lain soft­ens plaque, plan­tain and birch leaf extracts have a calm­ing effect on the mucous mem­brane. Despite the nat­ur­al com­po­si­tion, the man­u­fac­tur­er talks about whiten­ing by 1 tone per month.

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How to choose a whitening toothpaste

All pastes that remove pig­ment plaque and are con­sid­ered whiten­ing are divid­ed into two types:

1. With an increased con­cen­tra­tion of abra­sive ele­ments — clar­i­fi­ca­tion occurs due to mechan­i­cal cleans­ing of con­t­a­m­i­nants on the sur­face of the teeth.
2. With the con­tent of deriv­a­tives of hydro­gen per­ox­ide — there is a chem­i­cal clar­i­fi­ca­tion of tooth tis­sues.

The main fea­ture of abra­sive whiten­ing tooth­pastes is the high con­tent of abra­sive pol­ish­ing com­po­nents. The more of them are, the bet­ter it will clean the enam­el. The abra­sive rat­ing is the RDA index and is often list­ed on the pack­ag­ing. Pastes up to 80 units are com­mon hygien­ic ones that are suit­able for every­day use.

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With an RDA coef­fi­cient above 80, all pastes are whiten­ing and require their cor­rect appli­ca­tion:

• 100 units — 2 times a day, not exceed­ing 2–3 months;
• 120 units — 2 times a day, not exceed­ing 2 months and then a manda­to­ry pause of 1.5–2 months;
• 150 units — 2–3 times a week for 1 month, then a break of 1.5–2 months;
• 200 units — 2 times a week until the desired result, then 1 time per week to main­tain the effect.

Some man­u­fac­tur­ers do not list the abra­sion fac­tor, so you can’t say for sure how safe they are.

It is impor­tant to note that not all shades of teeth can whiten well to the desired result. Only hav­ing a yel­low tint, you can achieve vis­i­ble light­en­ing by a cou­ple of tones. If the col­or of the teeth is gray or brown, then whiten­ing at the den­tist will be an effec­tive method.

To achieve the best result, it is rec­om­mend­ed to alter­nate the pastes: first use pastes with a high con­tent of abra­sive sub­stances, and then with car­bamide per­ox­ide.

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Popular questions and answers

We dis­cussed impor­tant issues relat­ed to the use of whiten­ing pastes with den­tist Tatiana Igna­to­va.

Sources:

1. Text­book “Teeth whiten­ing in ther­a­peu­tic den­tistry” Byvalt­se­va S.Yu., Vino­grado­va A.V., Dorzhie­va Z.V., 2012
2. Unsafe tooth­pastes. What ingre­di­ents in tooth­paste should be avoid­ed? — Iskan­der Milevsky