{"id":26,"date":"2023-08-21T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:04:04","slug":"i-have-bonding-can-i-still-whiten-my-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"I have bonding, can I still whiten my teeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I have bonding on my teeth, but I would like to whiten them. I want to know if I can, and what the best way to do this is without damaging my bonding would be?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can whiten your teeth without causing damage to your bonding. The pH of whitening gels is neutral and will not harm the bonding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real issue with whitening when bonding is present is the disparity that will occur over time as the tooth lightens in color and the bonding does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be best to go see your dentist in this case because some very thin bonding on the front teeth has the potential to exhibit a chameleon-like effect and could match the new, lighter color that you achieve with whitening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chameleon-like effect is dependent upon the material of your bonding that the manufacturer used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ultimately, the results are unpredictable, and the worst case scenario is that you have to replace the bonding to a lighter color<\/strong> <strong>afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have bonding on my teeth, but I would like to whiten them. I want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[15,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentdentistjobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}