Management of tetracycline stained teeth

Color change following vital bleaching of tetracycline-stained teeth.

Extended bleaching of tetracycline-stained teeth: a 5-year study.

Bleaching tetracycline-stained teeth is the most challenging form of tooth lightening. This article reports on 44 subjects who bleached their tetracycline-stained teeth for 6 months using trays with reservoirs overnight in a half-mouth designed study and 2 of 3 different concentrations of carbamide peroxide (10%, 15% or 20%). The subjects were followed for 5 years. The area evaluated was the mi...

Flawless Smile with Zirconia Crowns for Tetracycline Stained Teeth

Tetracycline is one of the teratogenic antibiotics used in various infections affecting both adults and children, has a side effect of staining teeth because of its ability to form a tetracycline calcium orthophosphate complex. It binds with calcium ions and forms this complex at the time of odontogenesis which not only causes a permanent unaesthetic appearance, living behind a huge psychologic...

Laminates--a practical approach to restoring tetracycline-stained teeth.

Management of tetracycline discoloured teeth

Philip Newsome BChD PhD MBA FDS RCS (Ed) MRD RCS (Ed) is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry of Hong Kong University and he is on the Specialist Prosthodontist Registers of both Hong Kong and the UK. He graduated from Leeds University Dental School in 1976. In 1986 he joined Hong Kong University where he is currently an Associate Professor. He holds the Fellowship in De...