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Anyone know what the difference is in the new Zoom teeth whitining procedure and bleaching your teeth?
Short answer - marketing (seriously)
What the Zoom system is is an accelerated start to the bleaching process using a light source that heat activates the Zoom bleaching gel. The heat combined with the light will give the bleaching process a quick jump start (mainly due to dehydration of the tooth). After your Zoom light session is done, you get to wear zoom bleaching trays for a few days in the conventional peroxide based bleaching gel in a tray mechanism to preserve the jump start that the Zoom light gave you.
Conventional bleaching would just use the peroxide based gel in a tray (or sometimes on a strip as in whitestrips) to get the results. Ultimately they can both get you to the same lighter shade. Zoom just has the benefit of the wonderfull marketing machine that Bill Dorfman has assembled at Discus Dental to get product recognition for the masses.
BTW, while I'm not a big fan of the Zoom light jump start to bleaching fanfare, I do love(and dispense) Discus's Nitewite/Daywhite bleaching products to my patients for my tray bleaching cases😍. Most of the bleaching that I do in my office is done via Whitestrips professional strength strips. Good results in about a week at avery economical price, and the market advantage of Proctor and Gamble behind them to get product recognition👍
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I second Dr.Jeff's opinion their Daywhite/Nitewhite are great stuffs but their Zoom2 is just marketing. Independent CE instructors/researchers will tell you it's a scam and tons of posts in dentaltown will tell you it's a costly scam.
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one thing to consider, the nice thing about in office bleaching, the results are quick, and if a patient has sensitivity its not as much of a struggle to bleach. Take home bleaching usually needs 10-14 days of consistent bleaching. If sensitivity starts the first night, it can be hard to finish the duration. The in office gets the bleaching done, if the patient has sensitivity, its after the bleach and usually subsides in a couple days. Ive done a ton of bleaching. The best lightening is when a combination of in office and take home bleaching is utilized. Just my 2 cents.
Zoom is gimicky. They make you buy their lights. Now, you have to buy new tips for the light everytime you whiten another patients teeth. Like Dr. Jeff said, it's all Dorfman marketing to make more money.
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You really shouldn't do that. A radical bypass of the restriction breaker has been known to cause a temporal feedback loop which could tear the ship apart. I just rerouted some power from the sheilds to stabilize the omniflector and bounced a neutron particle reductor off of the pneumoflex circulator.
That should solve most of your problems.
Hi have just purchased this lamp.Ignorantly I did not know about the guide issue.Could you please advise me on this issue I read your post,As I am not electronically minded would appreciate your input in anyway.My lamp is the zoom2.
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