A couple of years ago, I got Lumineers for my top teeth, but never did anything to fix my bottom teeth. Now I want to bleach my teeth, but what will that do to my Lumineers?
Stephen in Boise
Dear Stephen,
I have to start the answer to your question with a question—do you want to bleach just your bottom teeth, or both the top and the bottom?
If you want to bleach just the bottom teeth, you should be fine. But the Lumineers will never get any whiter than they are right now, so I really hope you got them the shade you wanted.
If you were beginning the process of getting porcelain veneers in our office, we would encourage you to pick the degree of whiteness that you want for the upper teeth rather than trying to match the shade to your lower teeth (unless, of course, your lower teeth were already the shade you wanted). If you are trying to pace your costs for treatment, you can get by with whiter upper teeth, and then go back later and bleach the lower teeth to match the shade of the upper teeth.
To read more about the process of bleaching your lower teeth, read our page on Zoom Whitening.
I hope everything turns out OK for you.