Whitening peroxide technology

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, California--Evolve Dental Technologies, a research, development, and dental product sales company, has announced research and development that results in a reduction of in-office whitening time by 50% and significantly lower cost to dental offices, yet provides the same whitening results.

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These new advances are made possible by the introduction of Evolve’s new dual-accelerated, tri-barrel hydremide peroxide technology.

“The KöR Whitening Deep Bleaching System is the first teeth whitening system to utilize a tri-barrel design that keeps the whitening gel chemistry separated into three barrels,” explained Evolve Dental Technologies founder and chief whitening researcher Dr. Rod Kurthy.

“The innovative new tri-barrel system has enabled the creation of our new hydremide peroxide formulation, resulting in the ability to achieve desirable chemical and physical properties of whitening gels never before accomplished. The increased effectiveness has allowed Evolve to cut in-office whitening time in half by eliminating one of the two in-office whitening visits, thereby reducing the amount of whitening gel necessary and providing a reduction of cost.”

Evolve Dental Technologies refrigerates a line of whitening products from the instant of manufacture until received by dental offices. This, in addition to the new dual accelerated, tri-barrel hydremide pPeroxide technology, is responsible for the ability to provide fully water-based gels with a neutral pH, yet still provide a long shelf life and assurance of receiving whitening gels at 100% potency.

Benefits resulting from constant refrigeration and the new hydremide system include:

• Whitening gels with a low surface tension without running off the teeth. The low surface tension results in improved absorption of whitening factors into the microstructure of teeth.

• The addition of a buffering system. Hydrogen peroxide-based gels generate acid as they release the whitening factors that whiten teeth. This can result in an acidic level as low as pH3. Acidity increases sensitivity and slows the whitening process. Addition of a buffering system results in the maintenance of normal pH, lowering sensitivity and maintaining rapid production of bleaching factors throughout the application time.

• Two different chemical accelerators. These increase the ability to force the generation of effective whitening ions and radicals instead of simply water and molecular oxygen.

• The ability to provide fully aqueous and neutral pH gels. This results in an osmolarity as low as 1/11th that of ordinary gels that may have an anhydrous base with acidifiers added (necessary to extend shelf life when refrigeration is not used). The lower osmolarity results in much less osmotic force on dentinal tubular fluid, greatly decreasing sensitivity experienced during whitening procedures.

• An 18 to 24-month shelf life, yet still providing extremely unstable whitening gels. Unstable gels release whitening factors rapidly and effectively when placed in the patient’s mouth.

Peroxidase antioxidant is found in saliva and sulcular fluid, and will destroy peroxide gel on contact. Key to the KöR Whitening system is the fabrication of KöR-Seal Deep Bleaching Trays. The fabrication may be performed by dental office staff or by the KöR Laboratory. KöR-Seal Trays provide a “seal” at the cervical 1 – 1.25 mm of the teeth, effectively sealing whitening gel in the trays and sealing damaging saliva and sulcular fluid out.

Salivary and sulcular fluid peroxidase is destructive, and is capable of destroying peroxide within ordinary bleaching trays in minutes. This results in only 25-35 minutes of active whitening. The combination of slow-release KöR Whitening at-home gels and KöR-Seal Deep Bleaching Trays enables six-plus hours of whitening activity.

Evolve offers whitening systems for situations and patients ranging from average to geriatric and even tetracycline-stained patients.

KöR Whitening systems include:

• Max – the most popular KöR Whitening system. This system is the most effective and predictable for average patients. Protocol is two weeks of at-home whitening with 16% carbamide peroxide and daily desensitizer application, followed by one in-office whitening visit with 34% hydremide peroxide. Use of retractors and paint-on gingival barrier (provided in the kit) are used during the in-office whitening visit.

• Standard – effective and predictable for dental practices that prefer not to use retraction or paint-on gingival barriers. Protocol is two weeks of at-home whitening with 16% carbamide peroxide and daily desensitizer application, followed by one in-office whitening visit with 13% hydremide peroxide. Neither retractors nor paint-on gingival barrier are necessary during in-office whitening.

• Max Ultra – used only for rare, difficult cases, such as tetracycline stains, fluorosis, and geriatric patients. Protocol is an in-office whitening visit with 13% hydremide peroxide, followed by at-home whitening with 16% carbamide peroxide and daily desensitizer application, and then a second in-office whitening visit with 34% hydremide peroxide.

• KöR-Night – effective whitening for patients or practices that prefer at-home whitening with no in-office whitening. Protocol is wearing KöR-Seal Trays with slow release 16% carbamide peroxide and daily desensitizer application for two weeks at night.

• KöR-Day – effective whitening for patients or practices that prefer daytime at-home whitening with no in-office whitening. Protocol is wearing KöR-Seal Trays for one or two, 45-minute sessions per day with rapid, aggressive-release 9% hydrogen peroxide and daily desensitizer application.

Evolve Dental Technologies offers discounted start-up kits that include what a dental office needs to start the KöR system. Included in the kits are training (manual and DVD), a patient-presentation photo album, impression materials for multiple patients, in-office desensitizer, marketing kit, dental office listed on patient referral section of www.KORwhitening.com, as well as whitening products, at-home maintenance kits, and free KöR-Lab-fabricated KöR-Seal Trays for two patients.

Evolve Dental Technologies provides a full satisfaction guarantee of its whitening systems. When start-up kits are purchased, after two patients are treated following the details taught in the KöR Whitening Training Manual, if the dentist does not agree that the results achieved are the best ever seen, Evolve will refund the entire cost of the start-up kit.

For more information, call (866) 763-7753, or log on to www.EvolveDental.com.

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