Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The first thing people notice when they meet you is your smile. To be more confident when giving wide-mouthed, eye-crinkling smiles, people want healthy, pearly white teeth. Currently consumers turn to whitening treatments that combine hydrogen peroxide-containing gels and blue light. But they can break down enamel and lead to cavities and discoloration. Now, researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report a new hydrogel treatment that breaks apart cavity-forming biofilms and whitens teeth without damaging them.
“Fast Cross-Linked Hydrogel as a Green Light-Activated Photocatalyst for Localized Biofilm Disruption and Brush-Free Tooth Whitening” - Lan Liao, Ph.D., and Xiaolei Wang, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c00887
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The first thing people notice when they meet you is your smile. To be more confident when giving wide-mouthed, eye-crinkling smiles, people want healthy, pearly white teeth. Currently consumers turn to whitening treatments that combine hydrogen peroxide-containing gels and blue light. But they can break down enamel and lead to cavities and discoloration. Now, researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report a new hydrogel treatment that breaks apart cavity-forming biofilms and whitens teeth without damaging them.
“Fast Cross-Linked Hydrogel as a Green Light-Activated Photocatalyst for Localized Biofilm Disruption and Brush-Free Tooth Whitening” - Lan Liao, Ph.D., and Xiaolei Wang, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c00887
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