A study on various techniques used for bleaching of vital tooth- a retrospective study

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Satisfying patients’ high expectations for dental esthetics is one of the challenges in contemporary dental therapy for both clinicians and dental technicians. The prevalence of dental fluorosis appears high in some areas. Its severe form results in great psychological distress to the affected individual. The aim was to analyze the different methods used for vital bleaching procedures for the patients visiting Saveetha dental college.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted in Saveetha dental college with 62 patients the graph was done in SPSS software version 23 the Dias study was conducted clinics.Ethical approval for contacting the Dias was given by an esteemed institutional research department via is SRB form.

RESULTS: Totally there were 62 patients involved in this study of vital bleaching,the techniques that were involved are, conventional bleaching, power bleaching,thermo catalytic bleaching, laser activated bleaching, and there are also other techniques, the number of patients who did conventional bleaching are 40, number of patients who did power bleaching are 11, number of patients who did thermo catalytic bleaching are 1, number of patients who did laser activated bleaching is 1, number of patients who did other techniques are 9, patients who did vital bleaching in upper arch 36, patients who did vital bleaching in lower arch are 6, patients who did vital bleaching in individual  tooth are 30, 44 patients did fluorosis,10 patients did stains, 8 patients did esthetic reason.The chi square test was analyzed and the p value= 0.01, (p>0.05) and is statistically not significant.

CONCLUSION: In this study it was concluded that the commonly used methods for vital bleaching is the conventional method that is followed by thermo catalytic, power bleaching, other techniques and laser techniques for aesthetic reasons, such as fluorosis and stains.