Tooth Whitening An Evidence-Based Perspective
This book reviews the evidence relating to the mechanisms, clinical efficacy, safety/toxicity, and clinical application of tooth whitening techniques and materials. All clinical techniques are profusely illustrated step by step. The book is divided into f
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Tooth Whitening
An Evidence-Based Perspective
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Tooth Whitening
Jorge Perdigão Editor
Tooth Whitening An Evidence-Based Perspective
Editor Jorge Perdigão University of Minnesota Minneapolis USA
ISBN 978-3-319-38847-2 ISBN 978-3-319-38849-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-38849-6
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Preface
Our team started working on this project immediately after I finished editing and writing the book Restoration of Root Canal-Treated Teeth: An Adhesive Dentistry Perspective (Springer, 2016). As with the previous book, this new book project made me feel truly blessed to have known so many talented colleagues from different parts of the world. The countries represented in this book include Brazil, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the United States of America. More interestingly, the coauthors of this book represent different generations of dental professionals. We will not mention here how old the oldest authors are, but the two youngest authors were born in 1987 and 1989. Dentistry is indeed an outstanding global and beautiful vocation. The driving force behind the current book was the need for a compilation of independent evidence-based information on dental whitening. We have all fielded questions from patients inquiring about different whitening methods, including over-the-counter bleaching, as-seen-on-TV laser bleaching, shopping-mall bleaching, and jump-start bleaching, just to mention a few. As a dental professional, I have been asked about bleaching techniques that I had never heard before, mostly anecdotal, yet the patients had read all the details about these supposedly cutting-edge methods online. My ultimate goal is to contribute to a better understanding of dental whiteni
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