The classification of bleaching techniques into three categories is vital to assist with predicable treatment planning for the various tooth whitening programmes required to obtain successful outcomes.
This webinar will explain the evaluation of new patients requesting bleaching, along with the management of bleaching related sensitivity and how to combine tooth whitening techniques with minimally invasive aesthetic dentistry.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the scientific basis of bleaching, having acquired knowledge and understanding of the process
- Summarise key points of the EU directive concerning tooth whitening products
- Identify the various dental bleaching techniques
- Clarify the answers to patients’ questions and concerns regarding dental bleaching
- Summarise the causes of sensitivity and patient management during treatment
- Apply the knowledge of shade assessments for dental bleaching
- Use the knowledge gained to implement dental bleaching photography, following the standard images required
- Recognise the consent process and information patients require prior to undertaking tooth whitening procedures
- Discuss strategies to manage problems associated with tooth whitening and dental bleaching.
Dentistry Webinar - On-demand
Whitening success strategies with White Dental Beauty
Speaker: Linda Greenwall
The speaker
Linda Greenwall is a prosthodontist and specialist in restorative dentistry. She lectures in the UK and internationally on tooth whitening, aesthetic dentistry, practice management and inspirational talks.
She runs a multidisciplinary private practice in Hampstead, London, where she works with a specialist team, where she sees patients for full mouth rehabilitations, complex whitening and restorative treatment.
Her first book, Bleaching Techniques in Restorative Dentistry, won the award for Best New Dental Book in 2001 – the second edition of this book, Tooth Whitening Techniques, was published in May 2017, and third edition is underway. Her book Success Strategies for the Aesthetic Dental Practice was published by Quintessence in 2011 together with practice management consultant Dr Cathy Jameson. She has written many papers for scientific journals.
In 2011, Dr Greenwall established the Dental Wellness Trust Charity which has the motto ‘Oral health through dental wellness’. The charity runs innovate oral health programmes to the less fortunate Communities in UK and South Africa.
In June 2017 she was honoured by the Queen in her birthday honours to receive the British Empire Medal for her Service to Dentistry in the UK and Abroad, and awarded an MBE in 2025.
You can sign up for the webinar here.
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