Teeth whitening in Mayur Vihar

Most people book whitening for a specific reason and a specific date - a wedding, a shoot, a job interview, or simply having looked at a photo of themselves. What follows is exactly what happens when you come to us for it, so you know what you are agreeing to before you sit down.

Your first appointment is an assessment, not a whitening

We do not whiten on the day you first walk in, and you should be wary of anywhere that offers to. Peroxide gel on an undiagnosed cavity or an exposed root surface is genuinely painful, and gel over tartar simply does not reach the tooth. So the first visit is a check of the enamel, the gums and any existing restorations, plus a recorded starting shade against a standard shade guide.

That shade record matters more than patients expect. Whitening is gradual enough that people forget where they started and then feel the result was small - having the before shade written down settles it. We photograph it too.

The honest conversation about your result

At the assessment we tell you what is realistically achievable for your particular staining, and occasionally that the answer is "less than you are hoping for". Tea, coffee, smoking and paan staining respond well. Fluorosis mottling and tetracycline banding respond poorly, and whitening can even make fluorosis patches stand out more. A single dark root-treated tooth needs internal bleaching, not a standard session.

The other thing we check is whether you have crowns, veneers or tooth-coloured fillings in your smile line. Those do not change colour at all, so whitening the natural teeth around them makes them look darker by comparison - sometimes enough to need replacing. Better to know that now than afterwards. Our teeth whitening cost guide goes through each of these cases in detail, along with what every option costs.

The session itself

Allow about 90 minutes in total. We start with a scaling and polish if you have not had one recently, because whitening gel cannot lift stain through tartar. Then a protective barrier is placed over the gums and cured - this step is what separates clinical whitening from salon whitening, and skipping it is how people end up with chemical burns on the gum margin.

The gel goes on in short cycles rather than one long application, activated by the light between cycles, with the shade rechecked as we go. Both arches are treated - we do not quote per arch and then surprise you with the second one. We finish with fluoride remineralisation, which is the step that most reduces the sensitivity you would otherwise feel that evening.

Afterwards: the 48 hours that decide your result

Freshly whitened enamel is temporarily more porous, which means it takes up colour as readily as it just gave it up. For the first 48 hours avoid anything that would stain a white shirt - tea, coffee, red wine, turmeric-heavy curries, beetroot, tomato gravies, cola and soy. Paan, gutkha and smoking are the worst of all, and the ones that most often undo a session within days.

Some sensitivity in the first 24 hours is normal, not a complication, and settles within two or three days. If you already have sensitive teeth, tell us at the assessment and we will pre-treat with desensitising agents rather than have you discover it afterwards.

Planning it around a wedding or an event

Leave three to four weeks, not three days. The sequence is assessment, then cleaning, then whitening once the gums have settled - and you want the sensitivity window comfortably clear of the event rather than on the morning of it. Delhi's wedding season produces a queue for exactly this every winter, so book the assessment early even if you decide against whitening later.

Making it last

• Expect one to two years from an in-clinic session, less if you drink several cups of chai a day
• A take-home tray kit used two or three nights every six to twelve months maintains it for far less than repeating the full session
• Rinse with plain water after tea, coffee or wine - it helps more than people expect
• Whitening toothpaste maintains a result; it does not create one
• Come back for a scaling every six to twelve months - much of what people read as "the whitening wearing off" is simply new surface stain

When whitening is the wrong treatment

If the problem is the shape or position of your teeth rather than their colour, whitening will not address it and we will say so. Chips and small gaps are usually composite bonding; deeper discolouration that will not lift is veneers; crooked teeth need aligners or braces rather than porcelain over the top. Where several of those apply together, it becomes a smile makeover and is planned as one sequence with a 3D preview first - the smile makeover cost breakdown explains how that is priced.

We would rather send you away with a ₹1,500 scaling that solves it than sell you a whitening session that does not. That is not modesty - it is that the patient who felt oversold does not come back for the implant three years later.