One of the simplest ways to bring back a youthful look is not through any type of temporary or permanent treatment with facial aesthetics. Such treatments are great too, but if you want a less invasive way to recapture some lost years, get your teeth whitened.

As a rule, ageing teeth lose their whiteness, and there are numerous causes for this. Even though they look like impenetrable solids, tooth enamel is porous and stains can sink into it.

Yellowing can partly be blamed on what we eat and drink. The tannins in tea, black coffee, red wines and colas all discolour the teeth. You have only to look at your fingers after eating blackberries or blueberries to understand that they stain the teeth too. Is it even worth mentioning that tobacco is terrible for the teeth, turning them shades of yellow, grey and dark brown over time. Also, some antibiotics stain the teeth.

You can see that none of these causes is much to do with your age. However, discoloured teeth can make you look older than you are. We correctly associate yellowing teeth with advancing years. Over the years, brushing gradually wears away the outer layer of enamel, allowing the yellower dentin below to show through.

Thankfully, teeth whitening works on everyone, no matter their age. At Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, we use the Enlighten home tooth whitening system. This is the only system that allows you to choose the shade of your teeth after two weeks of home whitening. In the 10 years that we have been using Enlighten, we have never had a disappointed patient who has used our teeth whitening in Guildford.

Your treatment process

You come in to see us so that we can take impressions of your teeth, from which we make bespoke whitening mouth trays. You take these home, along with the whitening gel. You put the gel in the trays and wear them overnight, or during the day for several hours, for about two or three weeks. After which you will have a guaranteed B1 shade of white, the brightest there is.

To maintain it, you need to wear the gel trays overnight for a night or two every three to four months.