Can I whiten my porcelain fused to metal crowns? They look kind of opaque.
Alice- Oregon
Alice,
The reason they look opaque is because they need to be made that way to hide the metal foundation. Whitening them will not help. There isn’t a teeth whitening that works on cosmetic work, not even professional teeth whitening.
The only way to get them any whiter is to have them replaced with all porcelain crowns. These do not use a metal foundation, so the crowns will have the same brilliant translucency of your natural teeth.
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