Dr. Hall:
I have a few stained white spot lesions. My dentist has given me some tooth mousse and after about 2 months he prescribed some whitening. Will this totally clear up the stains?
- Jonathan from Ohio
Dear Jonathan,
Your dentist is batting 1 for 2. Or maybe I’ll only give him half a point, because even on the treatment that he is close to correct on, he missed the mark.
The Tooth Mousse is a treatment that is designed to treat “white spot” lesions. Its purpose is to remineralize them to help keep them from turning into cavities. I don’t believe the company makes any esthetic claims, though, for the product used alone and not combined with microabrasion treatments also.
But he is WAY off on prescribing tooth whitening treatments. The whitening will probably make the spots worse. Tooth bleaching generally whitens everything, so it is contraindicated if you have any spots on your teeth.
You need an expert cosmetic dentist, and there are two ways to get rid of white spots on teeth, depending on their nature.
One is with a procedure called “microabrasion,” where an acid-pumice slurry is rubbed onto the surface of the teeth, and many white spots then disappear.
The other way is with tooth bonding, where the spots are covered with composite resin.
Check our list of expert cosmetic dentists. We have a number of Ohio cosmetic dentists. That’s where you need to go if you want this fixed.
- Dr. Hall
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