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An investigation by Sky News has revealed that some High Street beauty clinics are illegally using teeth whitening trreatments which can cause lifelong problems. Sky's Health Correspondent Thomas Moore reports.
It may be a treatment for that perfect smile, but in the wrong hands, teeth whitening can cause permanent dental problems. The investigation by SKY news has found potentially corrosive chemicals being used in beauty salons by technicians with as little as one day's training. At Harsh Therapia Forum around the covered reporter was offered treatment for 295 pounds.
We offer qualified service, the same job as dentist. OK.
That's 340 times higher than the legal maximum concentration allowed under the cosmetic product safety regulations, in other words, illegal.
At the North London Appellation Clinic, the technician seemed (to be) well versed in the law. It's illegal to sell hundreds of products, so we have to explain it why, so it's illegal to use, it's illegal to sell. So are you? We gave you the.. So what are we paying for? ......
It's clear she's also had an advice on another law, the 1984 Dentist Act which forbids anyone other than the dentist from undertaking the dental procedures, so in this clinic, you do it yourself.
Before we put this thing into your mouth (Right!) to touch anything that goes in your mouth with it. That’s what you do yourself, all you do is hard.
But the Department of Health considered teeth whitening as dentistry. The General Dental Council says giving instructions on dental procedures also falls foul of the act.
Tooth bleaching done properly is a dental procedure, you have to put your hands in the mouth, you have to take compressions to make individual traits to hold the bleacher and close fit, and you can't do that with helping your hands in the mouth. If you put your hand in the mouth, then that’s dentistry, it's what dentists do.
We also find clinics using chlorine dioxide, the chemical more commonly found in industrial cleaner. The British Academy of cosmetic dentistry said it's highly acidic and it can dissolve the tooth surface causing permanent damage. But in the Smile's Bar in Liverpool Street Station, our reporter was told it was safe.
....And it's completely safe to do it. Yeah, Yeah, definitely! Can you see a difference? We can't.
But chlorine dioxide stripped away the shinning enamel from Carla Regan's teeth; it wasn't Smile's Bar, but another clinic onboard, a cruise ship this summer. At first her teeth sparkled on a home video.
But within a week of her holiday, her teeth became brown; she may now need a remedial dental work costing 5000 pounds.
I have to.. to basically protect, give me the protection against, you know, the stain, stains from food.
In response to our investigation, Smile's bar said chlorine dioxide nearly cleaned teeth, and it's safer and more effective than hydrogen peroxide. It denied that it was involved in illegal dentistry; both in North London, Appellation Clinic and Harsh Therapia Forum believe they had been operating within the law and would stop offering teeth whitening while it took further legal advice.
The British association of beauty therapia and cosmetology said only dentistry should whiten teeth, it’s helping trading standard officials to bring prosecutions against clinics that break the law.
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