Well, after having tried the whitening trays that the dentist gave me and not having the desired results, I went in and had the Zoom "Instant Whitening" done yesterday. Let me just say that it wasn't very easy to sit through that for an hour. The prop open your mouth with these plastic braces, pack your mouth full of gauze, apply all the stuff, put yellow glasses on your eyes, and then attach this lamp to your mouth. Well, it's not really attached. I mean, you can pull away from the lamp if you want to, but they fit together like a puzzle piece. Then you have to do at least 3 cycles of 15 minutes and each time they apply new gel. Anyway, if the gel sits on your gums it starts to burn. It's up to you how long you can tolerate it. I went through 4 cycles and was not able to tolerate anymore. Afterwards, depending on the person and how many cycles you did, you get these shooting pains in your teeth that last for about 1 to 3 seconds and then go away. I just get them randomly, but they are starting to go away now. I noticed today that the areas of gum that got the gel on them are dead and sloughing off. So I have some sore areas on my gums. Kind of freaked me out a little, but apparantly it's normal and it will heal. They tried to prevent that from happening by putting something on my gums, but obviously they didn't get it all covered.

On the upside, my teeth are definately whiter, but I still have some areas that did not take the gel very well or something and are still the old color. Luckily the Zoom 2 comes with touch up gel that I can apply. Just have to wait for the gums to heal.

So, just thought you might like to know how that worked for me. Oh... and this procedure is normally between $700 and $800 in Ohio.