The OPTISMILE Podcast 122 - Whitening a Single Dark Tooth

eRadio SA · Aug 24, 2026 · 22m

Introduction

It is one of the most common - and most misunderstood - problems in dentistry: a single front tooth that has quietly gone grey, brown, or almost black while every other tooth in the mouth stays perfectly white. In this episode, Dr Clifford Yudelman explains why it happens, usually years after an old knock that never hurt and was never investigated, and why the standard fixes patients are offered — more whitening, or a veneer — are often the wrong answer entirely.

Instead, Dr Yudelman walks through internal bleaching, also known as the walking bleach technique: a nearly…