Crest 3D No Slip Whitestrips Professional Effects Teeth Whitening Kit 20 ea

I will be the first to say that this product is not for everyone. For those who have the right type of enamel that is strong and not overly porous you should notice a dramatic whitening effect. I have given this product though to my family members and they have very mixed results. For my sister-in-law they actually highlighted the discolorations of her teeth which was really disappointing. She drinks a ton of coffee and has soft enamel. So while this whitened some parts of her teeth it did nothing to others. She tried this product twice with the same results. My dentist literally cannot believe how reactive my teeth are to this product. I actually have professional whitening trays and this product works better for my teeth than doing professional whitening. I do have severe sensitivity and gum irritation when using the professional whitening gel and trays. So that is why I consulted with my dentist as to what he recommended for me. Do not get me wrong, the professional trays got my teeth white, but I did not want the side effects that came with it. With that said, I strongly recommend consulting your dentist before trying this product especially if you have a good dentist patient relationship. I believe they can definitely tell you if over the counter treatments will be effective based upon your teeth and dentition. If this product is recommended for you then definitely try this whitening kit. Since my teeth are already white, I use this kit as a touch up twice a year. I always get a good expiration date with a lot of longevity when I buy this product on Amazon. You definitely want to always make sure you have a fresh product whether you buy this on Amazon or locally. So check the expiration when you receive or before buying. I personally could not beat the Amazon pricing locally for this product. I also love that Amazon offered me a coupon when I put it in my car so I saved even more than I first expected. This arrived quickly to my condo. These strips stay securely on your teeth until you pull them off. I always use a paper towel or tissue when I pull these off. If not the tips of my fingers will get white from the whitening gel. This usually goes away after a day or so. But if you use a paper towel or tissue you should not experience this. I do not have pain in my teeth or gums after using these. I do experience dry mouth and tongue though the day after. So I really try to stay well hydrated when using these. Sometimes I also get chapped lips but that side effect goes away 48 hours after I am done using these. I also like that this product does not have any after taste or chemical taste when there are in your mouth. This product definitely works better if you do not brush your teeth before using. Of course make sure your teeth are clean so swish some water before placing these on your teeth, but this product works better for me personally if I do not use them immediately after brushing. For those who say they experience side effects or do not get a level of whitening they expect then I recommend making sure you are following the directions to the letter and if you are then contact Crest for a refund. Just make sure you have proof of purchase. Good luck if you decide to try these. I hope they work for you as well as they do for me and that you get a super Amazon price too!

I am simply amazed by this product. I tend to be skeptical (and cynical) about just about everything, especially products that claim they'll increase whiteness by "three shades." (What the hell is a "shade" anyway?) Well, whatever a "shade" is, I got a zillion of them. My teeth are GLOWING after about four days of use. They even whitened my porcelain crown -- something I didn't expect, since it wasn't nearly as stained as my natural teeth and I figured it must still be the original color. The product is convenient, they STICK so I don't have to mess with them, and they leave my teeth feeling slick and looking awesome. I AM SO PLEASED! I just put them on before I lift weights in the morning and take 'em off before I brush and head to work. Easy breezy. I drink a lot of coffee and red wine (for the vitamins of course.) As a result my teeth really started to look terrible. I didn't notice it in the mirror so much but in pictures they always looked like crap. I kept thinking I would go to the dentist and have them whitened but then you have to take time off work. What a hassle. These are easy and they work. I just can't emphasize enough how happy I am. They do make my teeth hurt, but my teeth are naturally sensitive anyway so I brush with Colgate Sensidyne. I think it's important to put the strips on before you brush, then brush with desensitizing toothpaste immediately afterward. I haven't stopped using the strips yet but I suspect my teeth will slowly return to their typical level of sensitivity after I'm done with the box. I can easily do this once every few months if necessary. Totally worth it. Extra points to Crest if they decide to make whitening strips that already have fluoride in them so you don't have to use desensitizing toothpaste afterward. Another downside if you can call it that: The top strip is only wide enough to cover the smile of someone with a mouth the diameter of a broom handle. A lot of the yellow in my smile was on the front side of the rear molars which you can easily see whenever I open my gaping maw. The solution of course is to put the strip across the rear teeth on alternating days. You have to be especially careful not to get the rear side of the strips wet with saliva as you do this or they won't stick. It takes a little practice but it's worth the trouble. None of this came as any surprise. I did my research before buying the product. Anyway, definitely five stars.

This morning was the second day. WoW! It's deffinately Crest's best whitening kit they have for retail as I've used thier lower priced kit,Rembrant and a $350 Dentist's Kit which all of them took the entire package to do JUST an ok job. I will say that the $350 kit I used from the dentist has been the worst kit I've used. Dentist's like to take a mold of your teeth and make you feel like this does some kind of magic making thier whitening product work better than Crest's ... it doesn't and I know plently of you have seen terrible results like this. Follow my direction below and I will save you $300! The only good part of the mold of your teeth and using the gels is that you get more coverage to your rear teeth but "IF" you do my routine below, you'll have healthy back teeth that are white enough. The formula Crest uses in this product doesn't irratate my gums or make them feel that nerve type of tingle that's annoying which I've experienced with all whitening kits. Because there hasn't been irritation like I described, I've been waring them for 40 minutes instead of 30 minutes as I was afraid they were either too old or were not working. Nope! This product works better than the $350 kit and the others mentioned above! I want to add that I haven't had a cavity in over 8 years and I'm 35 years old. The bottom line PEOPLE is that you can't stick your toothbrsh in your mouth just for 30-60 seconds in the morning and 30-60 seconds at night and think that your teeth are going to to just be as white as a babys and you're gums are going to be healthy as well!!! I had coffee stains in between my teeth about 5 years ago and I thought my teeth were rotting out. I brushed for about 2 minutes twice a day but I never worked the toothpaste into my teeth because I always applied the toothpaste to the toothbrush's brissles. That's the wrong way to do it and after I thought about the process of 30 years of brushing my teeth, I changed my way of doing the job as explained below. 1st ... apply a liberal amount of toothpaste to the tip of your tongue and allow your tongue to apply the toothpaste to every part of all of your teeth, front and back pushing the toothpaste in between your teeth. You can even let the toothpaste just sit on your teeth for 30-60 seconds before brushing. This is the only way to make use of all the toothpaste instead of having that toothpaste being pushed to the bottom of your brissles which difficult to wash out, if you wash it all out at all when done brushing. How do you suppose your toothbrush can dry properly if you have toothpaste stuck to the bottom the brissles? It can't and that in itself breed bacteria because it can't dry. Do you really like sticking that toothbrush in your mouth seeing this mornings old toothpaste still on it? Of course you don't and if you do, then somethings wrong with you! So apply the toothpaste to the tip of your tongue, not to the tooth brush's brissles! Then take your toothbrush (I use a medium Colgate) and slowly work those brissles in between each tooth feeling the brissles actually going in between each tooth and into your gum line. It's not a race! I get sick of seeing ppl brush thier teeth like it's a 50k Sprint! I do not understand how these people think that brushing your teeth at 100 MPH for 20 seconds does the job!?!?! This is a major reason people have bad breath and teeth that look like the person is doing meth. Make sure you floss once a day after you brush your teeth and before you use your mouthwash and don't make that a race either. You really got to work that floss (I use the waxed REACH Cinnamon brand) like you're buffing the finish on your new paint job and don't forget to get into the gumline. How can you buff a tooth with anything but the waxed floss? The string type just removes debris and the tape floss just folds up. Either way use floss once a day! Rinse with a mouth wash twice a day (I use Listerine or generic and I like it HOT!!!). I don't believe the non alcohol rinses do the same good job as the alcohol rinses. I look at the ingredients. Either way, use a mouthwash of some sort. One thing I've noticed about mouthwashes is that the dyes in them can leave your teeth slighlty stained so I recommend you switch your colors of mouth wash each time you buy a new bottle. One month I'll use cool mint, the next cinnamon, the next the yellow one, etc. I wish they'd make a clear Listerine that had the alcohol in it like Crest's Clear non-alcohol mouthwash. When you use your mouthwash, DON'T make that a 10 second race either. Use as directed which is usually for 30 seconds. "IF" and I SAY "IF" YOU use Crest's 3D Toothpaste and do what I explain to you for 10 days, it'll look like you have a new grill. THEN AND ONLY THEN ..... after the 1st ten days of your new brushing,flossing and rinsing routine have started then use these Crest WHite Strips and it'll look like you went to a Hollywood Dentist and paid $1000. NOTE:!!!! If you are not a regular floss user flossing daily like I explain above and you don't brush your teeth properly like I explain how to above or use mouthwash twice a day like I explained above ..... then .... I suggest waiting 30-45 days after doing the above proper way of brushing/flossing/rinsing routine BEFORE using the Crest White Strips because your gums need to get used to being flossed properly and brushed properly. If your gums are not healthy, don't expect to put any whitening strips on and not have your gums get irritated with the nerve tingling feeling which is very uncomfortable. If you can't handle the the stips for 30 minutes as directed DON'T EXPECT THE PRODUCT TO WORK!!! I also suggest using this kit 2-3 times a year "IF" YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR MOUTH!!! Good luck! Update!!! I used them for 8 days in a row. I can't see how my teeth can get any whiter so I'm using the rest as a touch-up which I'm doing by using one package once or twice a week. Update 2-5-2012 I'm buying this product for a 2nd time. I have a months worth of Hawaii time coming and I will use half of the stips to make sure my smile is Hollywood perfect!

I was meaning to try this product for ages and finally decided to go through with it as I have my first post-college career job starting soon. I smoke and also drink just about everything that dirties teeth, and while I take care of my teeth and have good hygiene, I've never been able to get anywhere near the shade of white I'd like. After completing my box of pro effects, I must say i'm very pleased with the results. I didn't reach the reallllly nice shade of white, but they are leaps and bounds whiter. I actually saw some results after my FIRST application of pro effects...but here is a warning (that has been posted in many other reviews...) 5 minutes into my first application I got an incredibly sharp pain in the dead center of one of my top teeth. I'm talking like stabbing exposed nerve kinda pain. I'm one to get cavities drilled without novacane, and I have quite a high tolerance for pain but this was like the equivalent of sticking a fork in an outlet. It wasn't bad enough that I felt the need to remove the strips, but I definitely wasn't expecting that type of pain. It played out exactly like some other reviews state; pain fades quickly and then randomly returns now and then. Unlike some others though I had NO pain after removing the strips, and no pain in the following hours etc. This scenario played out almost my entire first week using the strips, but by the time I got towards the last 5 or so treatments I would just get a tingling sensations that felt as if the pain was approaching the 'ouch!' tipping point but didn't make it over the hill. For the comparatively small price tag i'm very pleased, these strips weren't goopy and stayed on my teeth very well.

It seems like the biggest complaint with these strips is sensitivity, so I'm going to use the first part of this review to give some recommendations on alleviating the sensitivity. You can markedly decrease the sensitivity by using Sensodyne (or a similar product) as your regular toothpaste while using the strips. This is my third time (in about 7+ years) using crest whitestrips and I am always thrilled with the results. I have experienced more sensitivity with this kind than others previously, but I found that using maximum strength sensodyne eliminates the sensitivity enough that I don't have to take day(s) off in order for the sensitivity to go away. I've also heard that using a fluoride rinse can help, but I haven't tried it. I was really surprised that this product had anything less than 5 star reviews, and hopefully this helps some users because the results are really phenomenal. Also, do not use these after brushing, as the instructions say. If you have sensitivity, wait to resume using them until it goes away or you will just make it worse. But I promise these are worth sticking with because they really do deliver! I drink a LOT of coffee, tea, soda, and wine and I don't want anything less than a bright white, celebrity-esque blinding smile. These strips do the trick. I used my first set about 7 years ago and while chatting with a girl I had never met before, with my Starbucks in hand, she remarked that my teeth were really white and asked how I managed to keep them that way even as a coffee drinker. I divulged that the Crest Whitestrips were responsible for my pearly whites. I was thrilled that my teeth were so white that a complete stranger wanted to know my secret, and I hadn't even finished the box yet! Since then, every couple of years I will get the urge to touch up my results so they stay really white despite my consumption of staining beverages. I'm almost half way through the box and I'm thrilled that my teeth are on their way to being bright white again! I did notice that I had a hard time gauging my own results, I guess partially because lighting affects it and I see myself every day. Pictures can be misleading, but I find it really hard to believe that you could use this entire box and not notice significant whitening. I noticed the biggest difference when standing in front of a window (or outside) so I would recommend using that to gauge your level of whitening.

I don't drink much coffee or tea and I don't smoke, so my teeth weren't very stained to begin with. But they were a bit dingy, and yellowish around the gumline. These whitestrips worked really well... better than I expected considering that I was starting from mostly-white teeth. The results are clearly noticeable, and I imagine they would be even more dramatic for those starting with darker-stained teeth. I'm not sure what some other reviewers found so difficult about using them. You just peel the sticky strip off the plastic backing, press the strip onto your unbrushed teeth (toothpaste can prevent the gel from penetrating, I guess) wait a half hour, then pull them off and throw them away. Maybe if you don't have the patience or dexterity to peel the strip off carefully and apply it properly, you won't be satisfied with them. One of the uploaded picture captions says they don't work between teeth. I was a bit concerned about having that problem as well since my teeth are not perfectly straight. So I made a point to press them onto my teeth one at a time starting in the front and working toward the back, rather than across all of my teeth at once. This way I could press the strip with my fingernail onto each tooth following its contours from one side to the other. That got the gel onto all of the visible areas, and all of the teeth were whitened (including in between teeth and around the gumline). I could see how your results between teeth would be worse if you don't take the time to press the strips against each tooth and squeeze the gel between them. Besides the fact that the gel tastes kind of gross, and they do leave some little white blotches that take a few days to fade away, I have no complaints about these strips. My teeth ended up looking naturally white in just 3 weeks and I didn't experience any sensitivity from it. I would highly recommend them, especially for the price and convenience. I'll definitely be using them again the next time I want to whiten.

I am 11 treatments into my 20 strip box, and so far, the results have been OK, at best. I used crest strips YEARS ago (10+ years) with similar results. At that time, my dentist told me that some people just don't have white teeth, after I asked him about an in-office treatment attempt due to the lackluster results from the white strips. It's not a matter of stains or wear, but just the natural color of some teeth is not brilliant white. He said those people would benefit for from bleaching as opposed to the peroxide treatments, as that's the only way the teeth would get 'white,' but bleaching can cause other issues. I had that in mind when going into this recent use, but figured I'd see if the results would be the same with the stronger, improved product. After the eleven treatments over 11 days, I am seeing SOME change. More of just a homogenization of the color as opposed to a super-whitening (which tells me the product is helping with some stains). There is some lightening as well, but it's not an 'expected' result based on the product claims (not even sure if qualifies as a one-shade whitening). I am starting to get some sensitivity now, but plan to continue the treatments until the end. I'll just use toothpaste for sensitive teeth to mitigate the sensitivity. Not expecting a miracle by the end of the cycle, but I'll see if the results improve at all. Just heed my story about what my dentist had told me, and temper your expectations for the product. UPDATE: I used the product down to the last strip (OK, OK...my wife used 1 of them before a vacation trip), and I can say my results above never improved. 'Whitening' was minimal. That's not to say the product didn't work, but as I pointed out above, I just don't have teeth that are going to get that luminescent whiteness. I think this will be the last time I give these a try, at least for another 10 years.

I'm only 4 strips in and already see a clear improvement in the whiteness of my teeth. I was originally thinking I would have to get veneers to whiten my teeth (due to long time coffee drinking) but my dentist dissauded me and said that the the home kits not only worked with less irritation but also had a longer lasting, more permanent effect. The strips are easy and quick to apply, and stay on rock solid. They are correct that you can easily talk, drink, etc. with them in. I personally don't drink with them in since it's only a half an hour but certainly it won't bother the strips. I took a before photo and I'll try and post the 'after' once I am done with all 20 but even four strips in and I'm already sold on the product. Here are some quick items to be aware of: 1 - There is a minor taste that will hit the tip of your tongue as it contacts the back seam of the strips. Nothing major, but be aware it's not tasteless. 2 - I have not had any irritation at all. However, I did 2 days in a row, then started spacing to every other day so that may have helped. 3 - Removal - that's actually a bit of effort since the strips become very gummy and they have a very solid grip onto your teeth. That said, I'd far prefer that than if they were slipping around and sliding off since that would defeat the point. I previously did a dental whitening where they used a laser/light and ran you through multiple trays of stuff over a two+ hour period. My teeth were very,very sensitive for well over a week from it and the whitening effect both wasn't that much, and promptly disappeared in only a few months. Not at all worth the time, discomfort or money (I think it was $350 -$400 or so?). By contrast, these strips have already provided noticeable whitening 4 strips in, no discomfort at all, and a fraction of the cost. Highly recommend.