 Hello everybody, Andrea Maesky here. Let's talk about whitening. So either in-office whitening or Take-home whitening. So I'm going to talk to you guys about the different options that I have for my patients Because I do own a dental hygiene mobile clinic meaning I go to patients houses or I go to their office their you know wherever and clean and or Whiten their teeth and lately Everybody wants their teeth whitened and I contribute that to you've probably seen those ads on Instagram on Facebook of Take-home whitening kits now people love that idea But then a lot of them are starting to think hmm Maybe I should ask a dental professional to get it done instead just to make sure that it's safe because Usually when somebody's looking up a whitening product their first question is is it safe for the enamel? Because these days you can find anything on the internet, you know Do a search for anything it doesn't mean what's on the internet is true So a lot of people come to me and say, you know, how much do you charge for whitening because I hear you come To the house, which is awesome Or they might be getting married and then say, okay Me and my fiance me and my you know wedding party want our teeth whitened, but we're pretty busy You know and you come to us, which is amazing But how much is it? You know and what's the difference between the whitening that you do and the whitening that I can buy from like $40-50 from the store So I'm going to actually talk to you guys about a little bit about all of that because even as a dental professional Whitening hasn't been out for that long. I'm thinking maybe 12 years maybe 15 at the most But that's not a long time if you think about it That's when the whitening first started to become popular people wanted to do it They could see the before and the after and go wow, you know, who does not want white teeth? Honestly, you will not have anybody say to you that they want yellow teeth. It just doesn't happen, right? But I'm first going to talk to you guys about the ones that I use in my office currently So I am using something called a pull-out office. Okay, so I'm just going to show you guys that for a second So this is what I use. Okay, and I actually don't have any left. I need to order another package But this is kind of what it looks like on the inside. So it comes with It comes with The gum protector so the gum barrier I believe they call it because how this works for the in-office treatment is You would put cheek retractors in the patient's mouth You would apply the gum protector over the gums if you're not sure what that is just do any search on YouTube for in-office whitening and then you can kind of see how they do it and then you would You use the whitening syringes. Sorry guys. I just have to blow my nose. Sorry. Sorry. I Have allergies today. I'm not sick, but I had allergies. Okay Sorry guys, okay So then you would apply these The syringe with the whitening on the teeth So depending on the type of system you you you use It might take the patient one hour to whiten it might take half an hour It might take 20 minutes. This one takes half an hour. So that's why I Wanted to give this one a try plus That's actually the system that we had used in my old office where I used to work for like 12 years And I could see that it does work. The price is fair like this I Believe per patient like per office treatment is about $90. So that's actually fair Although don't quote me on that. I kind of want to double-check now But I believe that that's how much it is and then of course you would charge your patients anywhere from, you know $300 $400 $500 for the in-office treatment now. I did have a promo where I Would do whitening for a hundred and fifty dollars With a cleaning so if patients had their teeth cleaned with me They could get the whitening for only a hundred and fifty dollars in office. So that's what I did and you know what? With whitening it you shouldn't expect to make your money from that Like I don't want you to lose money like let's say this costs $90 per patient, you know, which I can't remember. I have to double-check But I think so I don't want you to only charge you fifty five dollars right to your patients so make money but don't expect to make an extra two hundred dollars after a cost because Patients won't want to pay that Maybe they will I don't know but that's kind of what I'm noticing But I do always say with a cleaning if they want Only the whitening and then I charge two hundred two hundred dollars Which you know, I could actually probably charge more but it's it's kind of me Getting you know patients knowing who I am They have a good experience and then hopefully want to come to me from now on type thing Right since I'm a new business. I do things a little bit differently But that's what I use in office now I find every single patient though that I've used it on it does cause Sensitivity if they haven't used a sense of time prior so I do tell my patients use a sense of time two weeks before I wet in the teeth and then for at least two weeks afterwards that will help to protect against the sensitivity But for those patients where I show up and they go, oh, I forgot to use the sense of time Well, I come to them so I'm not just going to leave right so I Do the whitening anyway, and they're always sensitive not painful sensitive, but they will say to me like um Yeah, I'm ready to stop now because it's sensitive. So with this stuff you would leave it on It's pretty much on for a total of half an hour Every eight minutes or so you're supposed to suction off The whitening off of the teeth and then add more so after about eight eight minutes or so three times So it stays on for about half an hour and always by the third time I have patients say to me Oh, you know, or you know, it's kind of hard for them to talk because they have their cheek retractor in so they're kind of like this But they're always like oh that's really really sensitive so you can tell right what they're saying So then I say do you want to leave it on for another? You know five minutes or do you want me to take it off and they say always take it off So when they're telling me that they want me to take it off that's sensitive So I'm actually looking for something else. Okay. I am because I don't want like my Patience teeth to be sensitive But as I said before if they use sense nine patients aren't sensitive. So you guys sense nine works It's amazing. You know if your patients are having difficulty with sensitivity Tell them to use sense nine and make sure that they use it twice a day But I also wanted to show you guys so I'm actually going to share my screen for the take-home option This stuff's amazing. So it's by the same company. They have either a polar day or a polar night for the polar night You leave it on for a bit longer. So I always buy The 22% because that's the highest strength of take-home that you can give I see here a 35% But I actually have never seen or have been able to order a 35% take home The in office is 35% but the take home I don't believe it. So I think that might be a mistake on the website or maybe I was just looking at the wrong thing I'm not sure but I Usually order the 22% which is the highest Because I figure you know patients want their teeth to be whiter and they want results sooner than later So I find this take home works amazing people are so so happy With the 22% I tell my patients to leave it on for about 30 minutes every single day Okay, I give them four syringes. So that's about two weeks worth Okay, depending on how much they use in their tray, but that's about two weeks worth now I do not make customized trays Here's me being honest. I hate taking impressions. Yeah, seriously. I hate taking them I hate pouring them up So if I ever hire a dental assistant one day who wants to take them for me and pour them up awesome but as of now I buy the The trays that are preformed from Maxel maxel so you do have to be a rep to order them, but oh my god Sorry guys, I came out of nowhere. I apologize Darn, I think I left my trays downstairs I should have known better but they are the best trays that I have found so far because they're a little bit thicker but not thick in a bad way because they're soft trace so They're cushioned in such a way where it kind of pulls your like Lips apart anyway, so the whitening solution doesn't get on the gums. I've tried trays from Amazon, but they're they're either too thin or they just slide out. Well, that's not very helpful Is it so that's what I do? So I give them about four syringes at home And I give them a tray from maxel to use I tell them to put it in for a half an hour every single day. Yes here It says 15 minutes, but honestly or well, it says from 15 minutes, but I just say to do it for half an hour every single day for two weeks It will look amazing if for some reason you you know Think your teeth look amazing after a week. Well awesome then stop using it and then save the other two syringes for in six months So and I just noticed so this is where that 35 percent comes in I Had ordered my pole a night from Patterson and they didn't offer the 35 percent But I'm gonna see if I can order the 35 percent somewhere else because I'm a Firm believer and you might as well have the strongest percentage use the sense that I obviously Unless your teeth are just so sensitive that you can't handle it But your teeth aren't gonna whiten as well, right? So I kind of want to look into this and I like how it comes in these like neat Kits too, right because like if you give this kit to a patient, they're like, oh, this is nice, you know so yeah, but I've been looking for and sorry. This is kind of a longer video, but You guys probably know me by now. I like to talk but what I've been looking into for the in-office is Wicked white so a lot of us who are Dental hygienists and we all kind of talk to each other, right? So we are awesome, you know, we all talk to each other We all help each other. I do have a course called Mobile Mobile RDH Academy, so I actually teach Dental hygienists how to start their own business if they're thinking about it and Included in that full course is a group also where we talk like every single day We just sort of talk about the pros the cons of kind of having your own business. We ask questions and you know Teeth whitening always comes up like well, what are you guys using at home? For patients. What are you using in office? How much are you charging and everybody seems to like? This company and apparently it was started by a retired Dental hygienist, so that's awesome. We all like to support each other, right? So but I'm looking into The in-office so not the take home because I do like the Polo night or the Polo day for the take home, but I'm looking and actually sorry I'm not logged in so they might not let me shock right now Because you do have to sign up and prove that you are a rep Sorry, I might just have to log in. Sorry guys here. I'm just gonna pause this for one moment Hey guys, sorry about that. Okay, so I was able to log in so I'm going to look at their in-home or sorry They're in home. They're in office options So they do have take home options and they have in-office options as well So like just as an idea for their take home the whitening kit that they do offer includes a whitening syringe in a pen, you know like products So all the patient has to do is Paint it on it includes trays too So they would paint it on and then put the trays over top to kind of keep the whitening, you know on The teeth I don't understand the whitening pens out there because yes You would paint it on but then as soon as you close your mouth the whitening is going to come off, right? So I like the idea of the trays although, you know Be careful. I haven't tried them but with trays you purchase be careful because some of them are horrible Like I have bought some from Amazon that just kind of slid right out, right? So I like the ones from Maxill, but I haven't tried these ones, but it also includes a Spray so what the spray does is it's used in place of What am I trying to say in place of Toothbrushing because they always say to brush the teeth first and then do the whitening after that So in this case, they include the spray to spray on the teeth and then you would Spin it out and that's supposed to clean the teeth, you know for the whitening So it just kind of prepares it and then with the whitening pen you would put on the Whitening solution and then the trays are used overtop. It includes a shade guide and includes something else by the looks of it, too Doesn't really tell me what this is and I I apologize I've never bought anything from here yet, so I don't really know too much about it But but as you guys can see they do offer the take-home kits, too They offer a lot of different things which is nice But I'm kind of looking at The in-office option although as you guys can see So there's a starter kit with no light now I kind of feel like I don't need a light But some of the whitening solutions though claim that you need a light for it to be activated So I might try though this this in-office kit without the light It looks like it includes a poster some cards 10 of the tooth Whitening pens so technically I guess that's good for 10 patients. So if you think about it if you're charging Let's just say for the sake of numbers a hundred dollars a patient times 10 You're making your money back totally, right? It includes five pretreatment trade sorry pretreatment sprays so that sprays of the Sorry the spray that I was talking about the micro brushes the daffodishes cheek retractors So a lot of things now. I actually don't feel like I need all this Because I'm a mobile hygienist, right? So I don't need a poster the cards though would be handy because it Explains the whitening. I'm assuming so Sorry guys I'm just gonna look into this further actually and I'll let you guys know what I decide to do But I see the cards are here and those are $80. So I wonder how many are in there and there's a hundred But still like it looks like a nice card though, right? So I might actually look into that I might I'm gonna look into that and I might even email her and just ask her some questions Like what she feels is the best in-office kit for me type thing Interesting you guys And I kind of like the idea too of doing the in-office treatment and then giving patients a take-home kit as well Because I find like with it with the in-office ones Yes, the results are good, but I don't feel they're amazing in my opinion So maybe I'm just not using the right product But then if I give them a booster to take home then that's when they really notice a difference And I just noticed you guys that they have this Take-home option for only $40 and it includes a tray with a light and I like how it comes in a box like that Nice say so I think that patients would love that so it does have the pen it has the tray with the light and the The spray although again, I have the traits. I like the box that comes in man. That's tricky a Yeah, I'm gonna look into that more and I'll let you guys know kind of what I think okay So thank you guys for watching again. Sorry. That was kind of a longer video I don't even know how long I've been talking for but so those are Kind of what I've been doing With the in-office Whitening the take-home and I'm looking into other things too So if you guys have questions, let me know because I find Whether you're a dental professional or a patient everybody asks about whitening they ask about cost So let me know if you guys have any questions. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you in the next one