Best Tooth Whitening Toothpaste Australia

Looking for the best whitening toothpaste in Australia? Everyone wants a whiter smile and even more-so everyone wants a whiter smile achieved by doing what they already do with only a few minutes effort every day. Worded like this, you can probably sense that whitening toothpastes do very little when it comes to at home teeth whitening. If it was this easy, everyone would be walking around with pearly whites. Let's break down why whitening toothpastes dont work, to do this we need to understand how effective whitening procedures work. biteglow teeth whitening kits uses clinically proven 6% hydrogen peroxide, applied directly to the teeth in a custom moulded tray. For it to be effective, it must be in contact with the teeth for 45-60mins for around 14 treatments to achieve significant results. This post outlines exactly how whitening toothpastes claim they work and why they don't achieve the results you expect. 

Abrasives

Salts in the form of calcium carbonate, sodium carbonate, calcium pyrophosphate or others may be capable of removing extrinsic (external) surface staining. However, they are not able to intrinsically whiten teeth. This is a major limitation as the pigments responsible for tooth discolouration (called chromogens) from tea, coffee, red wine and curries are retained inside the tooth. Not on the surface. Whitening gels like biteglow tooth whitening formula are able to penetrate the tooths surface breaking down chromogens to lighten your teeths appearance. 

Chemical Ingredients

Toothpaste manufacturers add hydrogen peroxide, carbamide peroxide and enzymes that claim to whiten teeth. The effects that peroxides have on teeth whitening have been clinically proven, however, like most active ingredients the concentration and duration they are applied are the significant factor. To satisfy the TGA regulations, peroxides added to whitening toothpaste must be kept at a low concentration to be safe. For this reason, for them to be effective the peroxide has to be in contact with the teeth for a significant period of time (up to an hour). Theoretically the toothpaste could whiten your teeth, if you kept it in your mouth for an hour and repeated this for 2-3 weeks but clearly this isn't feasible. That's why systems like biteglow use whitening trays and gels, so you can more comfortably retain the peroxide based solutions in your mouth for an extended period time. 

Optical Ingredients

The addition of optical ingredients in the form of Blue Covarine and Purple Pigments is a new method manufacturers attempt to sell whitening toothpaste. This attempts to give a yellow to blue colour shift, making teeth be perceived as whiter. These have often been shown ineffective and at best a temporary optical illusion. 

Don't just take our word for it, here's the science...

There was no observed difference between the changes in color values in dental enamel slabs brushed with whitening toothpastes and the changes found in slabs brushed with ordinary toothpaste. The whitening toothpastes did not outperform an ordinary toothpaste in the removal of extrinsic staining.

The present study does not show a clinically relevant increase in tooth whiteness after a single brushing with a blue covarine containing toothpaste, nor could the study participants observe a difference between treatment with blue covarine containing toothpaste and control treatment.

If you're looking for a method to whiten your teeth that's backed by science, consider using biteglow's tooth whitening kit.