Dentistry is beyond teeth whitening

This woman, who owned a trendy salon, believed that teeth whitening services would be a superb addition to her lineup of services such as eyelash extensions, temporary tattoos and custom makeup services to name a few. But after an Alabama Board of Dental Examiners inspector accused her of practicing illegal dentistry, she had to stop. This poor woman's ongoing lawsuit with the state has waded into the murky area of teeth whitening product regulation as these are now being seen everywhere outside the dental office such as the mall kiosks and beauty parlors.

The men behind the dental industry claims that it is very much an issue on health and safety but then those from the industry of beauty parlors accuse the dentists of making them lose out on something financially productive. She has been heard stating that as a business owner all she wanted was to give more services and bring in more customers to her salon. And then you are suddenly threatened to be shut? It can become so frustrating, shares this woman as she blow dried a patron's hair which has freshly cut. Such, according to her principle is a cosmetic treatment so they are not straying from the law's right side.

One who has been a dentist for 43 years and now consumer adviser and spokesman for the American Dental Association states that you can't really tell if the bleaching trays or ultraviolet lights are sanitary or safe to be used on people. People in white coats facilitating the whitening by handing customers the trays to put into their own mouths or adjust the lights over their teeth are seen in many salons now. So many customers might wrongly think that such salon employees are health care professionals and the ADA highly fears this. The level of disinfection and sterilization is something we are not privy about. There is no regulation for this so far.

It is now so common to see many of the whitening products now made available in stores for customers to apply on their own at home too. This, for us, ultimately boils down to a consumer rights issue, because consumers should have the authority on how to whiten their teeth just as long as the method is safe. Usually, when you have whitening at a salon or mall shop, you will have to cough up a hundred to two hundred dollars for the methods that entail ultraviolet light or bleaching trays. You'll have to pay four hundred dollars or more when you ask a dentist to do it.

A Montgomery judge has ruled in favor of Alabama's dental board in a lawsuit brought by a company that supplies whitening products to salons and kiosk, finding that whitening constitutes the practice of dentistry and requires a license. This lawyer from Birmingham who represented the Alabama board in the case, shared that several states from New Mexico, Wyoming, Louisiana, North Carolina, and even Minnesota have been discussing the same matter and that most of them have agreed to what the Alabama judge ruled in favor of.

It can be seen how just in this past month, the board of dentistry in Tennessee strongly stated that the whitening of teeth can only be performed by licensed dentists or hygienists and dental assistants under their direct administration after they were barraged by complaints involving mall stores. According to one salon owner who was so agitated, it is just unfair how they are seen to be practicing dentistry when they don't even touch the customers let alone touch their mouths.

This group known as the Ohio dental board still agreed after they have found that there is a need to do something about unregulated use of such products, stating that it would be fine for an individual who is not a dentist to facilitate the whitening just as long as it is the consumers who do everything from positioning the light, applying the materials on their own teeth and never lets anyone touching their mouths. The board agrees that by simply providing a person with the materials to make a tray and demonstrating to them how to apply materials to their teeth for bleaching purposes, you are still far from practicing dentistry.

In the past 4 or maybe 5 years that have passed, we have seen the rise of teeth whitening procedures but this ADA spokesperson recalls that 7 years ago when he was in a cruise vessel, he had witnessed such practices already. He shares that there is a policy under the American Dental Association but there is no way that such is enforceable. Figuring exactly how to handle this is what most governments of states along with dental boards have to uncover.

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