Teeth Whitening Products
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Thursday November 8th, 2007 @ 8:50 PM
Filed under: Lip/Cheek
I drink a lot of coffee and tea, and I’ve just re-quit smoking for the 50th time, so my teeth aren’t as white as I’d like them to be. Are teeth whitening products, like the strips you put on your teeth ok to use with oral piercings? I have a new-ish (about a month old) inverse vertical labret. I was of course going to wait until it was much more healed to stick any harsh chemicals like whitening products in my mouth; I just wanted to know if they would be ok to use once I was healed up.
Thanks! 
I’ve used teeth whitening systems myself, and they’ve never affected my healed oral piercings negatively - but I’ve only ever used the professional sort that one has done by a dentist, and I honestly don’t know if the supermarket ones are any different. I’ve always been told that the supermarket teeth whiteners are much weaker and take longer to be effective, so I can see it going one of two ways: A. It’s not as harsh and doesn’t irritate the piercings; or B. The multiple treatments and extended exposure will be more irritating. Of course, if the strips start irritating your piercings, you can always just stop using them!
Also, it just occurred to me that the kind of whitening I had done involved the bleaching gel put into fitted mouth trays, which pretty much kept the gel off my gums, let alone my lips or cheeks, so that’d be something to think about, too. Readers, feel free to weigh in with your experiences in the comments!
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5 Responses to “Teeth Whitening Products”
If they get the stuff they use at the dentist on your skin, you have a lot more to worry about than your piercings.
Adam on November 8th, 2007 at 10:55 pmI used to have some reletively fresh snakebite piercings, and also used some Crest whitening strips when they were about 2 months old. They didn’t effect the piercings at all, but the gel did make my gums super sensitive. So my snakebite piercings ended up bugging my gums really bad after using the strips, and I did notice some gum recession beginning, but once the sensitivity went away, so did any problems. But I would still be extra careful and keep a close eye on everything, not just the piercing… Hope I helped!!
Natalie on November 8th, 2007 at 11:33 pmI have a monroe piercing, and I’ve used whitestrips with no problems at all, even when the gel came in contact with the pierced area. However, my piercing was over a year old at the time, I’m not sure how yours would react, considering that it’s still pretty new. But as long as you were super careful not to get the gel on the area, I don’t see why it’d be a problem. good luck =]
Lexie on November 8th, 2007 at 11:45 pmI’ve had no problems using the Rembrandt whitening trays with my numerous piercings. You fit them to your mouth and they’re pretty much guaranteed to keep the whitening gel on your teeth and nowhere else
Darah on November 9th, 2007 at 10:26 pmThank you everyone! I appreciate it!
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