Why We Love Crest 3D Whitestrips
为什么我们喜欢Crest 3D白牙贴

If you’re deeply committed to a teeth-whitening routine, you may have already seen a professional. Maybe you have the trays and have your dentition sorted. But if teeth whitening is comfortably positioned in the middle of your self-improvement list—in the top 10, but not at the top—then Crest 3D Whitestrips 1-Hour Express are an excellent option.
如果你非常重视牙齿美白程序，你可能已经见过专业人士。也许你有了托盘，已经搞定了牙齿问题。但如果牙齿美白在你的自我提升清单中位置适中——在前十名内，但不是首位——那么Crest 3D白牙贴1小时速效版是一个极好的选择。

The concept is simple: Sticky plastic bands are coated with a colorless, odorless, mostly tasteless bleaching agent—in this case, a hydrogen peroxide gel. Ideally, you put the strips on your teeth, wait a bit, and peel them off, welcoming in a new era of a whiter smile.
这个概念很简单：粘性塑料带涂有无色、无味、几乎无味的漂白剂——在这种情况下，是过氧化氢凝胶。理想情况下，你把贴片贴在牙齿上，稍等一会儿，然后撕下来，迎接更白牙齿的新时代。

The concentration of the gel and the duration you’re meant to keep the strips on per treatment can vary, as can the results. Generally, a higher concentration whitens your teeth more but also increases potential for tooth sensitivity, especially if you already have sensitive teeth. The Crest 3D Whitestrips 1-Hour Express sit in that sweet spot of max results, reasonable time commitment, and nonexistent pain (at least for me).
凝胶的浓度和你需要保持贴片的治疗时间可能会有所不同，结果也是如此。通常，更高的浓度会让你的牙齿更白，但也会增加牙齿敏感的可能性，特别是如果你本来就有敏感牙齿。Crest 3D白牙贴1小时速效版正好处于最大效果、合理时间承诺和无痛苦（至少对我来说）的甜蜜点。

Crest says its express whitening strips contain a 10% concentration of hydrogen peroxide. For context, the original 3D Whitestrips, which have been shown to work, reportedly contain only 6%; the Philips Zoom treatment available from a dentist’s office uses 25%. A rugged former college athlete told me they found the Zoom treatments “excruciating.” That’s a no for me.
Crest表示，其快速美白贴片含有10%的过氧化氢浓度。作为参考，据报道原版3D白牙贴只含有6%；牙医办公室提供的Philips Zoom治疗使用25%。一位强壮的前大学运动员告诉我，他们发现Zoom治疗“极其痛苦”。对我来说，那是不行的。

For starters, the strips stay on. Older versions would glide and drift sort of grossly along your bite. These are so sticky, you need to look in a mirror and use a focused pincer grip to remove. They’re not particularly gooey or messy.
首先，这些贴条能牢牢贴住。旧版本的会在你咬合时滑来滑去，有点恶心。这些非常粘，你需要照镜子，用专注的钳子式手法才能取下来。它们并不特别黏糊或凌乱。

And perhaps most important, I see results after a single hour-long treatment. If I get on a kick—say three or four days—my teeth are pleasingly bright. I notice it particularly around friends. If you start looking, you’ll see too: People’s teeth are yellow. And mine, well, are not. It’s a brightness akin to what I looked like before my Moccamaster era, but not quite as pearly white as I’ll look in my reunion show host era. And my colleagues agree. Supervising editor Josh Lyon is still kicking himself for spending an “absurd” amount on a professional whitening treatment that wasn’t as effective as when he’d used 3D Whitestrips. Staffers with sensitive teeth and receding gums had likewise good experiences and rave results.
或许最重要的是，我在单次一小时的治疗后就能看到效果。如果我连续使用三四天，我的牙齿会变得令人愉快地亮白。特别是在朋友们面前，我会特别注意到这一点。如果你开始注意，你也会看到：人们的牙齿是黄的。而我的，嗯，不是。这种亮度类似于我在Moccamaster时代之前的样子，但并不像我在同学会主持人时代那样珍珠白。我的同事们也同意这一点。主管编辑Josh Lyon仍然在为自己花了一笔“荒谬”的费用做专业美白治疗而懊悔，因为那并不如他使用3D美白贴条时有效。有敏感牙齿和牙龈后退问题的员工同样有很好的体验和赞誉的结果。

For me, the difference is notable enough that my partner comments unprompted. Usually, a few days later I’ll notice him walking around midday with a suspiciously closed-lip smile, too. He’s whitening!

I strictly advise you never to ask for validation from a child, but when I’ve been unwise but whitened, I’ve feigned casualness and asked my daughter if my teeth look whiter. An inelegant inspection. “Yup. Can you find my dalmatian Squishmallow?” Reader, I rest my case.

Are there downsides? Sure. The size of the strips are not customizable, and everyone’s mouth is different.The strips are 1.5 cm high, which means I’m able to fold them over the top and bottom edges of my teeth in a snug envelope. As my partner will tell you, if you’re longer in the tooth, you may not enjoy as secure a seal.

I’m the proud owner of a snaggle tooth—one of my bottom center teeth is on its own journey about a row back from its colleagues. It’s hard to press the strip and the gel into that spot quite as well; that tooth misses out on as potent a whitening. Her loss.

And while some Amazon reviewers do experience increased sensitivity, especially after a few treatments, most seem largely pleased with the process and results.

Of course the results you see also vary depending on how your teeth are stained and if you stick with the regimen (which may be harder for those with sensitive teeth). My teeth are daily-coffee stained and can’t-bite-a-popsicle sensitive. The Crest 3D Whitestrips 1-Hour Express box has 10 treatments; the company advertises that it brightens teeth up to 12 shades whiter. By comparison, the original strips use lower concentration bleaching agents and claim to deliver results up to six shades whiter.

If you want quicker or brighter results, the LED kit—which requires you to hold a curved blue light up to your mouth for five minutes after your treatment—claims results up to 30 shades whiter. I’ve tried the LED device too and found it incredible, but I lost it and haven’t bought a new one, since the strips are pretty excellent on their own too.

Some of my colleagues swear by other versions of Crest 3D Whitestrips.

After a less-than-ideal experience with professional teeth whitening, Josh switched to 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects. If he has a special event coming up, he uses them for about a week ahead of time. “It lightens them just enough in that brief period to look natural (I’m not into the blinding white teeth look, I think it’s creepy), and I don’t worry as much about doing any additional damage to my enamel,” he says.

Costco sells bundle packs that come with a mix of Professional Effects and 1-Hour Express strips, which deals staff writer Kaitlin Mahar uses to her advantage. “If I’m short on time I’ll throw on the Professional Effects strips, but I like that the express strips offer a deeper whitening treatment if I’ve got more time,” she says. “I may or may not have also worn them on longer flights now and then since I’m not doing much else while I’m up in the sky—unless that’s weird, in which case I definitely don’t do that.”

This article was edited by Annemarie Conte and Ben Frumin.