Dental whitening, commonly referred to as bleaching, is a process that lightens the shade of the teeth.

The principle of bleaching is to use a whitening agent that passes through the enamel and discolors the underlying dentine layer.

There are several methods of bleaching : (ambulatory, chair or micro abrasion) that can correct these abnormal and troublesome discolorations.

The therapeutic arsenal of smile aesthetics, of which bleaching is a part, can be combined with other techniques to perfect the aesthetic result.