Brilliant Smile Solutions

Since I’ve been staining my adult teeth by smoking, drinking coffee and trust me on this, you don’t want to hear and I don’t want to be reminded of some of the other things that have intentionally or inadvertently ended up in my mouth in my past 70+ years, I thought it time to have my fangy looking teeth whitened up.
I saw an ad for a $ 75 dollar laser whitening job in Hot Spots magazine and figuring they’d be just about the same as any dental office but less expensive I gave them a call and made an appointment. When I arrived on the second floor of their Oakland Park Boulevard location I was greeted by a very pleasant rather professional acting young lady. The first thing she asked for was a photo ID. Hmmm? Though that struck me as a little odd, I guess such is the way in today’s world but it allowed her to put my name and address into her computer. I was then handed a «release» form to sign which contained some legal «cover your ass» type of mumbo jumbo with me acknowledging the fact that I knew that their operation was not a dental clinic, that the operators and so forth were not dentists, could not give dental advice and were generally unqualified as well as ignorant of anything involving medical dentistry. After signing it, I was lead around the corner to an ordinary office chair and had a seat. She then proceeded to take a picture of the front of my teeth then placed a plastic tooth and lip spreader in my mouth, coated my lips and then my teeth with some sort of goop, put a pair of reddish colored eyeglasses on me, aimed some sort of I think little laser light on my teeth and just had me sit for something around 20 minutes. Then, when the time elapsed took the spreader out of my mouth, handed me two Styrofoam cups, one filled with water to rinse, the other to spit out in. Then again took a picture of my teeth so as to show me what both before and after looked like. Indeed the after was in fact showed a noticeable whitening improvement. She then gave me some routine instructions of not to eat for an hour and so forth plus a pack of «sustaining whiteners» to apply and home, pulled out a ad, the same as I had from the previous week but instead with a $ 100 instead of a $ 75 dollar price I had noted on mine; a rather sizeable price increase, then of course wanted me to book so-​called «necessary» whitening follow up appointments. But figuring I had just been hit an additional $ 25 without and with everything about the office striking me as being fly by night portable had already made up my mind that I wasn’t coming back, I just paid with the additional $ 25 and didn’t quibble about it.
Though I was happy enough with their services in that they did indeed seem effective and work, I sort of got an uneasy feeling when hit with differing ads posing differing pricings for the same thing, rather unestablished nonpermanent offices consisting of portable everything, the so-​called «necessary» follow up add on routine and the legalese thing about acknowledging that they are seeming unqualified for anything absent any notation that I recall of what they might be qualified for or have actually had training in. So, since the cost is now about the same as with an actual dental office or dental technician, I think paying the same or even somewhat more to be the better proposition.