Vip Smile

Laser whitening treatment. First the results, then an explanation of my experience that day.
Please note that I think I would have worse than average teeth of those who consider they need (rather than want or could do with) professional whitening. It is hard to get and keep my teeth white in any case. So it is fair to bear in mind that I am probably not the typical client. While, at the same time, I felt this review is a very good idea to post, for people in a similar position to me. Again, though, it’s not possible to say that people with similar shades of teeth will have similar results. I simply don’t know.
RESULTS: I followed rather closely the necessary step of not eating or drinking much in the 48 hours after treatment, because teeth are very prone to deep staining after the treatment. I was pining for tea or coffee especially (which are ‘banned’) particularly because the treatment was sore and left me wrecked (see below). A day a half later, I was having a bowl of white rice on its own for dinner, and anything that wasn’t water, I was drinking through a straw still still not drinking dark coloured things. I’d had very little to eat, luckily I had some white meal replacement milkshakes I drank through a straw. It was all hard.
(Bear this in mind this about 1 hr whitening isn’t taking into account the next 2 days. Especially if you want to whiten and go out somewhere, drinking or eating, the next day.)
I was quite pleased with the results in the treatment studio. I am sick all of the time basically, and sometimes it’s very hard to brush for a couple of days or so. I’d been like this particularly before this treatment, and thought I needed the treatment. My teeth were down at the bottom range of the company’s shade identifier before the treatment, yellowy. Afterwards, I thought there had been a quite pleasing change, from looking in the mirror.
That was within minutes of the treatment. Though I thought I followed the 48 hour eating and drinking policy well, everything got much worse. After a couple of days, my teeth seemed close to as before but it was a lot more noticable. And it was worsening, though I’d been brushing often. I added to the brushing more frequently after that. The teeth got worse and worse. Within a week, I’d resorted to typical consumer treatments I use myself, such as Rapid White, Brilliant and White Light. I’ve always experienced that these work reasonably, and even when not working the best, if used together during the same period, and frequently, they work reasonably well.
But even after a few weeks of these home treatments I’m used to relying on working Ok or better over a fortnight or so and using them more than usual my teeth were strangely getting worse and worse. The yellow shade seemed more noticable than usual. There seemed nothing I could do. I bought numerous new toothpastes. Some helped for an hour or so, and then the teeth started to get worse again, as before.
By the end of nearly a month since the treatment, my teeth had got steadily worse, and most things I was doing had been making them worse still. This was really unusual. (I’d been brushing more than usual, typically 3 to 4 times daily. Also, I was using the cheap home treatments that worked OK in the past for me and never gave issues, though I’ve used them at times for most of a decade. I had a particular home whitening treatment that seemed to work slowly, and dulled the yellow tones, didn’t draw attention to this as the teeth whitened usually. Now, it wasn’t working, either.)
Only after a month, the typical whitening treatments I used were starting to work, just as normal as I would expect within the first few days. Still, even then, if I stopped using these for a couple of days, my teeth would display a distinct yellowness they didn’t have before. They weren’t good before, but this seemed a brighter, acidy yellowness and unnatural looking.
To sum up: The instant results, and the instant results only, were pretty pleasing, for an hour’s treatment. After that, it seemed worse than a waste of money. I wonder if some peoples’ teeth react differently. I suppose if you have teeth that will keep the instant shade improvement, or not get worse, the treatment could be OK for a weekend away, for example. But how to know if your teeth won’t get much worse for the shade within a few days afterwards? Is my experience typical or atypical? If the company believe that some people with worse teeth shades really NEED two treatments or they could be making things worse this could be stated in advance. I suppose it’s possible I was stuck in a limbo when I should have had 2 treatments within a month, or none. I don’t know.
THE EXPERIENCE: I visited with a voucher from an online company, so I paid between half and three quarters of the walk-​in price at the time (which was still a reduction from the very high price on their website since). The company has an upstairs office in the middle of the Lisburn Road. I was