During the years following this article the at home teeth whitening technique has gained wide acceptance by the dental community. The overwhelming majority of dentists in this country do offer this procedure to their patients and the research data which has been accumulated since 1989 continues to support the method's safety.
Side effects can and do occur with the at home teeth whitening technique.
While the side effects a person encounters can be significant enough that the at home bleaching process must be discontinued, they are usually found to be minimal. Most respondents rated their side effects as a 1 or 2. In all cases, if you do notice any side effects during the bleaching process, you should report them to your dentist. When just minor side effects have presented themselves a dentist will often simply recommend that the person just reduce the total number of hours their bleaching trays are worn each day, or recommend that the bleaching process only be performed on alternating days. Because both of these methods reduce a person's exposure to the teeth whitener, the side effects they have noticed will usually subside.