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Something to Smile about in this New Year!

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Among all the self-improvement ideas you may have in mind for 2010, how about adding a whiter smile? It’s an easy goal to reach, and thanks to the appearance of new professional bleaching kits from Shine, it’s a goal that’s easily affordable for almost any patient you serve.

Some clients may think that teeth whitening products don’t work. The truth is that most over-the-counter products are only somewhat effective. The popular “bleaching strips” contain only a mild level of whitening agent, and can cause unintended problems such as uneven whitening (if the strips start to slip), or hardening that makes them difficult to remove. Many whitening strips also leave behind an unpleasant grittiness.

These products are only effective for improving the appearance of light surface stains, and the level of whitening they produce is minimal. But for the majority of people plagued with yellowing or dinginess due to our habits or the beverages we consume, a professional strength whitening product such as the options from Shine can provide long-lasting and fantastic results.

Remember that even though teeth appear to be solid, they have pits and grooves that allow coffee, nicotine, and tea to stain the enamel. Regular brushing is not able to lift these embedded stains. Professional teeth bleaching kits – particularly those comprised of high quality custom-made trays used in conjunction with professional-strength carbamide peroxide gel, can seep into these nooks and crannies, generally lifting away dinginess and stains after a period of 7-10 treatments. However, if we continue to drink coffee or smoke cigarettes, these stains will reappear, which is why periodic use of professional bleaching products is the optimal strategy for keeping your smile bright and white.

So if your New Year’s Resolutions include whiter teeth, now is the time to investigate Shine’s professional whitening products and custom fit bleaching kits. Thanks to Shine’s low wholesale pricing and volume discounts, professional level bleaching has never been more cost effective-at a retail price of $99, your patients can save $200-300 over an equivalent kit from their dentist, while providing an easy source of additional profit for you. And that will give you good reasons to show off your own whiter smile all year.

Shine Teeth Whitening offers white-label teeth whitening products and services for medical spas, laser centers and cosmetic medical offices. Shine gives physicians the ability to provide custom teeth whitening services and products like teeth whitening kits and teeth whitening pens.

Who’s on the Teeth Whitening Bandwagon?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

With the teeth whitening industry surpassing $300M per year, it’s obvious that nothing is more desired than a clean and confident smile.

And despite the new products and fads, professional bleaching, using high-quality professional strength gel and professionally made trays, continues to be the most popular and the most successful method of whitening smiles. No method of bleaching (whether used by itself or in conjunction with other laser or light-based treatments) provides more dramatic results than bleaching, and short of permanent veneers, it’s the method that provides the most lasting results.

Professional strength home bleaching has helped millions of people increase their confidence by giving them a clean smile.

For a patient with extremely sensitive teeth, a high level of man-made tooth surfaces, or in need of basic dental maintenance, their dentist should decide if their teeth are healthy enough for bleaching and to recommend the best bleaching process a patient should choose for comfort and best result.

With careful use, almost every client can achieve results from bleaching using a high quality professional-level bleach such as the 20% and 33% carbamide peroxide gel solutions provided by Shine:

1. Patients with any type gum disease should refrain from using any type of teeth whitening products. Patients should be extra careful to keep the whitening gel from touching any part of their gums. However, remember that a good set of professionally made trays, or careful application with a teeth whitening pen helps to keep gel away from the gums. Remember that 50% of the whitening action happens in the first 15 minutes of treatment, so there is no need to risk sensitivity pain by using whitening trays for more than 15 minutes at a time.

2. The patient should wipe any excess gel that leaks out of the tray with a tissue If any part of the gums turn “white” from exposure to gel when the trays are removed, there is no reason for concern and the gums will return to their normal pink color in a few minutes. However, the white appearance is a sign that too much gel has been applied to the tray, and the client should use a less gel in future applications.

3. Teeth whitening procedures are usually not covered by dental insurance. However, at $99 for a full professionally made bleaching kit – or $20 for a whitening pen – patients are happy to gain these professional products at a fraction of what their dentist would charge them.

4. Manmade tooth material (veneers, crowns, etc) will not be whitened by the application of bleach. This is important to remember when a client has tooth-colored fillings on the front of their teeth. They should maintain the color of their teeth post filling, but patients should take care to emphasize the spaces between teeth most fully, where darkening happens first. They should avoid making the teeth whiter than the fillings.

5. Bleaching toothpastes are helpful to a teeth whitening regimen as they can remove some stains and improve the appearance of teeth – but toothpaste alone does not permanently or dramatically change the color of teeth.

6. Not every patient will get the exact same results from bleaching. In particular, teeth that are yellow or gray due to antibiotics will be more limited in their improvement results.

7. Patients should have any cavities filled before bleaching.

8. The professional bleaching kits from Shine, which are identical to a dentist’s bleaching kit, contains a much stronger peroxide agent than over-the-counter products, which typically contain peroxide in only a 2-4% strength, which means that a professional kit will be far more effective than over the counter tooth bleaching strips or similar products.

9. No matter how often you whiten, regular dental cleaning is still imperative to the continued look and health of your smile.

10. For clients who are pregnant – no study has ever indicated a risk of danger to mother or child of carbamide peroxide teeth whitening (although extra care should be taken to be sure the gel is never worn during naps or accidentally ingested). However, for maximum caution, you should advise any client who is expecting to follow their doctor’s advice before using any teeth bleaching gel.

Shine Teeth Whitening offers white-label teeth whitening services for medical spas, laser centers and cosmetic medical offices. Shine gives these medical spas and physicians the ability to provide custom teeth whitening services and products like teeth whitening kits and whitening pens.

Teeth Whitening Pens: An Easy and Fun New Whitening Tool

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

You have probably noticed the abundance of teeth whitening tubes and pens on the market. As small as a lip gloss, these tiny six inch cylinders contain professional-strength bleaching gel that you can easily apply with the tiny brush “tip.”

This is the easy-to-use impulse purchase that pleases everyone, from teens to retirees, and the portable container makes teeth bleaching instantly available wherever you go. There must be something to the phenomena-the pens are flying off the shelves of sites like Amazon and Sephora for $25 and up, and customers are giving them very favorable reviews.

This is why teeth whitening pens are breaking out as one of the most popular and high volume new products from Shine. Imagine the impact of custom-labeled whitening tubes for your practice, marketing your company wherever they go. And at Shine’s volume pricing (starting as low as $5 per pen), you can enjoy an instant source of new profit – what customer wouldn’t be thrilled to buy an additional pen or two during every spa visit at the suggested retail price of $20 per tube?

How do whitening pens work?

Even high strength and professional teeth bleaching isn’t enough to combat coffee and tea stains. The porous nature of the tooth’s surface makes it very susceptible to staining. Anything that would stain a white blouse, from red wine to your favorite Starbucks coffee, will also be making an impact on your smile.

For maximum whitening, there is nothing that can surpass the impact of periodic bleaching using a high quality professional whitening gel and custom fit trays. But for on-the-go-maintenance – or for clients who choose not to go to full professional whitening – a whitening pen can provide the right winning ticket by providing on the go touch-ups or as much as two shades of increased whitening after consistent twice-daily use for a period of 7-10 days.

Shine pens are filled with 1.9 ML of 33% carbamide peroxide whitening gel with a mild peppermint taste. Clients simply brush the front surface of the 6-8 teeth that show when they smile with a light coating of the bleaching gel. Keep the lips away from the teeth for 30 seconds to give the gel time to dry. At home, at the office, in the car – professional strength teeth whitener is a brush stroke away. It really is that easy!

Extra Uses

Whitening pens are the ideal to brush the whitening gel evenly over the front surfaces in the bleaching tray. This is an ideal step to gain the maximum amount of whitening with a minimum amount of gel and it also helps ensure even application of the bleaching gel to each tooth. So for every patient who purchases a Shine whitening kit, be sure to explain the value of owning at least one Shine whitening pen.

A Perfect Marketing Tool

Shine can custom label your whitening pens for your spa or salon, for a small one-time set-up fee. Whitening pens make a unique and fun gift that your patients will truly appreciate. Imagine the marketing impact of a whitening pen as a client appreciation gift that includes your logo, phone number, and a reminder that you’ve been “Making clients smile since 2005?”

So why wait? Check out Shine’s new whitening pens today and you’ll be on your way to a fun and immediate new source of profits in 2010.

Shine Teeth Whitening offers professional teeth whitening services for medical spas, laser centers and cosmetic medical offices.Now, medical spas and physicians the ability to provide custom teeth whitening services and products like teeth whitening treatments and smile whitening pens.

A $300M Industry, and Growing: Teeth Whitening

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

If you could make your practice more profitable with the addition of just one service, what would it be?

Why not teeth bleaching? According to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, 99.9% of adults believe that having a good smile is a must to having a good social life. 96% of adults say that an attractive smile is essential for making a good impression on the opposite sex. 74% believe that a less than perfect smile can actually hurt your career.

Over the last 5 years, dentists report that the number of their patients seeking whitening treatments has actually tripled. No surprise that professional teeth whitening has grown to become a $300 million industry!

Professional teeth whitening is one of the easiest, most profitable and safest procedures you could offer your patients.

The American Dental Association agrees:

“Dentist-prescribed, home-applied bleaching from a reputable manufacturer for short-term treatment duration is safe and recognized as most effective in lightening the color of teeth.”

And to make matters worse, the more porous surface of the teeth will require more maintenance than before to sustain any portion of the immediate whitening gain.

If you offer laser whitening treatments, it is imperative that you couple them with a high quality home whitening treatment in order for your clients to remain satisfied with that service.

The good news is that for optimal results, lowest cost and highest profitability, simply offering an economical option for a high-quality professional-fit home whitening kit will require no equipment, little to no training, and could make your practice more profitable by the end the of day!

The average cost of a professional home whitening kit from a dentist is $350. However, Smile Simple offers an easy outsourced lab solution for creating the same level of custom-fit kit-combined with full 22% carbamide peroxide whitening gel (over the counter whitening strips provide a solution of just 2-4%) for just a third of the retail cost. All this good news for your patients coupled with additional profit for you!

The cost of a professional home bleaching kit from a dentist ranges from $300 – $400. However, Smile Simple offers an easy outsourced lab solution for creating the same level of custom-fit kit-combined with full 22% carbamide peroxide whitening gel (over the counter whitening strips provide a solution of just 2-4%) for just a fraction of the cost. All this good news for your patients couples with additional profit for you!

By offering teeth bleaching kits to your existing patients, you could be adding thousands of profit dollar to your existing practice just by carrying and offering the simple-to-use Smile Simple kits. Also, each 5ML syringe of replacement gel is a $20 retail providing you an instant profit margin of more than 60%.

What next? Check out the new Smile Simple kits from MedicalSpaMD to get your share of this booming $300M industry.

Shine Teeth Whitening offers professional teeth whitening services for medical spas, laser centers and cosmetic medical offices.Now, medical spas and physicians the ability to provide custom teeth whitening services and products like teeth whitening services and new smile whitening pens.