 Hello, everybody. Andrew my asking here with dental L. So we are going to be talking about whitening today. Okay, so specifically whitening in the office. I started my mobile practice actually a year ago now because I did start at last November and I started teeth whitening right away because especially around the holiday. People ask about teeth whitening. Sorry, I think my internet just cut out there. So I hope you guys heard that last part. So just in case you didn't I'm talking about teeth whitening and I said, especially around the holidays, people ask about teeth whitening. So I'm going to tell you guys what I use for my teeth whitening Actually, I forgot something. So let me just go grab that right now. Actually, I'll push pause first. Hold on one second. There guys. Sorry about that. I kind of forgot the most important thing my whitening kit. So I am a mobile dental hygienist, which is why I have my whitening stuff all in here because I kind of know that if I'm going to somebody's house to do teeth whitening I know to grab this I usually grab it anyway because it's amazing how I might go to somebody's house to clean their teeth and then they say, Oh, do you do teeth whitening to all say yes. And if I have time, then I can add teeth whitening on to that because I do offer A discount on the teeth whitening if they have their teeth cleaned at the same time on the same day. Because obviously when I go to somebody's house, the more I can do and want to play with the better right So first though, I want to talk to you guys about my teeth whitening light. So I'm just going to move just so I can show you. So this I got from Amazon. See pretty cool. Right. So I don't have it plugged in right now, but it's very, very simple. It plugs in obviously the light turns on and there's a timer for 20 minutes. So this has been my amazing thing that I love so much. Um, teeth whitening lights can literally be $2,000 or more. This one was about During I should have looked at the price. I think $200 $200 or $300 from Amazon. My husband always warns me on third third party sites from Amazon, but for something like this. When I can pay $200 versus $2,000 I'm going to take the risk I did and it was amazing. It did say it takes about a month to ship to me. I believe I got it about three weeks later. So not too bad. There is some assembly, but you guys, it was so easy like you literally have to assemble this part here. I don't want to hit anything. Um, you put it in this part here and then the wheels on the bottom. As I'm hitting things. Oh boy. We're moving in about two weeks. So if I hit something, whatever. No, I'm just kidding. Don't want to hit anything. What was I going to say there's a timer for about 20 minutes, which is awesome. Oh, I did. I did want to mention This light. There was also kind of cheaper option where you would only get the first part here and you could actually attach it to a light or a I guess a tube that you might have on your chair already. So think of your dental chair. If it comes with an overhead light that kind of Tube that you have for the overhead light, you could attach that to it. I'm portable. So I don't have an overhead light. I use my loop. So that's why I did spend a little bit more on this one because it's on wheels, very easy to transport. In fact, I want to get another one because sometimes I wouldn't two people at the same time. So I'm actually going to hop on Amazon right after this video to get another one. I didn't want to order to just in case for some reason, the first one didn't ship or whatever, but I love it. I will leave the link for you guys On the bottom, you will save a fortune. So what else do I use for my whitening. I forgot my shade guy. Oh boy. Sorry guys and I probably forgot other things too. But that's okay. So what I use for whitening is I'm just kind of Taking things away here so I can open this up to show you. So I use the wicked white pro system. And for somebody who's been in the dental profession for 15 years. I'm using a wicked white pro. This is actually made and created by a dental hygienist. It's the best system I have tried, meaning it doesn't cause sensitivity. Sometimes it does. I mean, I can't say it doesn't I've still had some patients that were kind of like, yeah, I could feel it. My teeth are getting sensitive afterwards, but that only happens if they don't listen to me. When I tell them to use sensitine two weeks prior to whitening. It works. You guys tell your patients use sensitine two weeks prior, but On the website. It does say limited sensitivity. So it's not the whitening system that you know is going to hurt them. No names mentioned But systems that I've used in dental offices before always make the teeth sensitive. I don't like them because if you can find something where you don't have to hurt your patient, the better, right, right. So I'm just going to show you guys kind of what it looks like. So it comes in two tubes. One's a hydrogen peroxide and one's a carbamide peroxide. Okay, so Two different ones. Clearly, I use more of one than the other. Actually, the hydrogen peroxide makes sense because you use more of this than you do the carbamide. So the hydrogen peroxide You apply twice. So 15 minutes each time. So fit 15 minutes, take it off and then 15 minutes and then the carbamide peroxide can be for 15 minutes or a half an hour or you can do 20 minutes carbamide peroxide or I'm sorry. 20 minutes hydrogen peroxide 20 minutes hydrogen peroxide and then 20 minutes carbamide peroxide or you can do 15 minutes hydrogen. 15 minutes hydrogen and then half an hour carbamide, you know, I don't really have a set system and I just kind of do it based on my patient. If they're saying they're sensitive and I can tell they want to stop any time. Then I'll do like 15 minutes for the carbamide. If they're doing okay, then I will wait the full half an hour. You know, it just sort of depends But the light helps you guys. I think patients like to see the light and they feel like they're getting The best whitening experience possible. I got some sunglasses. I had actually ordered these from the Wicked White website. These I had ordered from Amazon before I bought this whitening system. So that's why I have two different colors there. The cheek retractors. You can get on Amazon as well, but I had gotten these from a dental website. I have three different sizes. I just have two right now, because I think one is currently being sterilized. This is a medium one. This is a large one. I do have a smaller size as well. I order Vaseline, you guys. I put this on the lips and on the gums. You don't need a gingival retraction. Sorry, a gingival barrier. Sorry, gingival barrier. I was that person that had said yes, you do. You need a gingival barrier. Even when I use the gingival barrier, they seem to get some stuff on their gums. If I didn't use it. Oh my goodness. What would their mouth look like ever since some Somebody gave me the idea actually from our independent dental hygiene network Facebook group. I have a course mobile RDH Academy where I teach dental hygienists how to open up their own hygiene practice and our Facebook group. Somebody had said Try to use Vaseline on the lips and the gums. It's so much quicker than the than the gingival barrier. And it works. I said, Oh, I don't know about that, you know, but the gingival barrier is expensive for like this little tube, like this thin little tube about $30 and you use a lot of it. So I needed tubes all the time. I'm like, Okay, there's got to be a better way. Vaseline works, you guys. I have q tips in my little kit here q tips to apply it. Of course, I have a whitening toothpaste just in case I'm talking to a patient. And they're like so what toothpaste would you recommend this stuff's amazing. I'm telling you what else do I have you guys so to apply the whitening I have these cute little They're called actually tattoo rings where I guess tattoo artists use them for their ink. Who knew Amazon again. And I have disposable Dappin dishes so I have two different ones just because I swear I couldn't find my disposable Dappin dishes for the longest time. So I had to order something else. But that's why I have two different ones, but I kind of like using two different colors, one for the hydrogen peroxide and one for the carbamide but it's not necessary. But I don't like a lot of waste though so I'm, I'm going to order some reusable Dappin dishes I don't think they're called reusable. Oh yeah they are reusable Dappin dishes so there's no waste so You can get them from Maxill for like a dollar each maybe less but they're reusable you guys so much more worth it if that's even that's horrible English I'm sorry for a bunch of these yes it's like $15 but that's a lot of Anyways, anyways you guys sorry I talked a lot about waste there. Let me first mention the cheaper tractors patients find them very uncomfortable there's no way around it. There's softer cheaper tractors out there but they're like, they're expensive. I don't know how much they are I want to say like $20 each. They're disposable so I prefer to buy these ones. Yes they're uncomfortable but I'm going to spend $20 each on those softer cheaper tractors if you can find them cheaper please let me know you guys I would love to buy them for my patients. Another thing that I use of course my shade guy also ordered on Amazon by the way I have all of these tips links, everything inside my mobile rgh Academy course because I have found some great deals. It takes time to find these great deals look at my teeth you guys. I'm happy to say it's not on this end. Anyways, okay so shade guy and I bought this little thing off of Amazon to a portable ring light so kind of looks like a mess right now. And you can plug it into your laptop with the USB but I actually bought this charging thing is just easier for me to carry around. Just kind of plug it in like this. Turn it on. It's very very bright. I just hurt myself. It's very very bright. You attach your cell phone here. And then you just kind of do this because I like to use the same light for every patient. So then that way it's the same light for the before picture and the after picture so I love this. This is what I use to take really good pictures you guys invest in a ring like it was like $12 not expensive. Like I said you can use your laptop but this was like $20 maybe and totally worth it in my opinion. So that's my way me patients love it. I think it's a great thing to be able to do. I do have a have a compressor unit with air water the suction, but I don't actually use it unless I have it set up already for a cleaning but you don't need air water suction in my opinion just have the patient obviously rinse their mouth out afterwards you know spit as much as they want to you don't have to buy like a portable suction unit if you don't want to yes it makes the patient more comfortable but I think I've only used the suction unit like once Typically after a cleaning I start packing up everything as they're laying back having their whitening done and patients don't complain ever so I hope that helps you guys I'm just going to show you that again wicked white pro I love Make sure to sign up under the dental professionals section on their website because it's a lot cheaper to do that way. But yeah you guys thank you so much for listening I'll leave the links for you guys on the bottom and I'll talk to you in the next one.