Choosing a whitening package usually comes down to two questions that have very little to do with the headline figure. What does it actually contain, and does it match your circumstances? A package that looks cheaper because it covers one person stops being cheaper the moment two of you want treatment on the same visit. A package designed around someone returning after a previous course will not serve somebody being assessed for the first time.
This page describes what each published package includes, using the inclusions exactly as they are published, and sets out the kind of situation each tends to suit. Figures move with the promotions that run through the year, so they are deliberately left out here. What a package contains is the part that stays constant, and it is the part genuinely worth comparing.
Read this as description rather than recommendation. Whether whitening is appropriate for you at all is a clinical judgement made after an assessment of your teeth, not something a webpage can settle. Nothing here can be booked or paid for from this page, and no package described below is available to everybody.
Full Treatment In Your Home
This is the complete first-time arrangement. It takes somebody who has not been treated before, or not been treated recently enough for previous records to be useful, and carries them through the whole sequence in one package: assessment, treatment, and the guidance that follows.
If you are comparing the available options, you can review the current If you are comparing the available options, you can review the current Laser Teeth Whitening Prices to understand how the published packages are structured and what is included. to understand how the published packages are structured and what is included.
What This Package Includes
As published, this package covers one pre-consultation in your home, one laser teeth whitening treatment, and one aftercare. Each of those three elements is counted individually, and the counts matter — they are what separates this package from the others.
What the pre-consultation is for
The pre-consultation is the part people are most tempted to think of as a formality, and it is the part that most determines whether the rest goes well. It is where your existing tooth shade is recorded, so there is a documented starting point rather than a memory of one. It is where the condition of your teeth and gums is looked at, and where anything that ought to be dealt with before cosmetic work — untreated decay, gum problems, a restoration that no longer sits properly — can be identified before an appointment is committed to.
It is also the point at which existing dental work gets discussed honestly. Crowns, veneers, bridges, and white fillings do not change colour during whitening, because whitening acts on natural tooth material. If any of those sit at the front of your mouth, the pre-consultation is where you find out what that means for how even the finished result will look, and whether it changes what is worth doing.
The recorded shade deserves a note of its own, because it is what makes the result assessable afterwards. Memory is unreliable about tooth colour — people look at their teeth every day and adjust to gradual change without noticing it, which cuts both ways. Without a documented starting point, judging what actually changed comes down to impression, and impressions formed under different bathroom lighting a fortnight apart are not comparable. A shade recorded at the outset gives both you and the clinician a fixed reference to measure against rather than an argument about whether anything happened.
Because this pre-consultation takes place in your home, it happens in the same setting as the treatment itself. That has a practical benefit worth naming: whatever is discussed about lighting, positioning, or your own comfort applies directly to where the session will actually happen.
What the treatment element covers
The whitening session itself is a single treatment rather than a course spread across weeks. In broad terms, the published description of the process involves matching the existing shade of your teeth, placing a protective guard around the gums so the soft tissues are shielded from the gel, applying the whitening gel across the teeth, and then using a light source to activate it before the result is reviewed.
What that does not include is any promise about where your shade will end up. Starting shade, the type of staining, and the structure of your own teeth all feed into the outcome, and two people given identical treatment can finish in different places. The honest framing is that this package buys you one properly conducted professional whitening treatment, not a specified result.
What the aftercare element covers
Aftercare is counted as its own inclusion rather than treated as an afterthought, and that reflects how much of the eventual outcome depends on it. The days immediately after treatment are when teeth pick up new staining most readily, which is precisely when most people relax and go back to their usual coffee. Aftercare guidance exists to get you through that window deliberately rather than accidentally.
It also covers what to expect if your teeth feel sensitive afterwards. Temporary sensitivity and mild gum irritation are commonly reported and usually settle, but knowing in advance that they are ordinary rather than alarming makes a considerable difference to how the following day feels.
What sits between the assessment and the treatment
The gap between the two appointments is not dead time, and using it well improves what the treatment has to work with. The published preparation guidance is modest rather than onerous: brush your teeth beforehand, and avoid heavily staining food and drink earlier in the same day. Arriving with fresh coffee staining on the surface simply gives the process more to lift before it reaches the discolouration you actually want addressed.
It is also the window in which anything flagged at the pre-consultation gets acted on. If you were advised to see a dentist about a filling, a sore area of gum, or a tooth that has been sensitive, that appointment belongs here rather than afterwards. Leaving it until after treatment inverts the order the package is built around, and can mean paying for a whitening session that then has to be worked around.
Who this package tends to suit
It fits people approaching whitening for the first time, where nothing is yet known about how their teeth respond. It fits people whose staining has built up gradually from tea, coffee, red wine, or smoking and who want it addressed properly rather than through supermarket products. And it fits people working towards a specific occasion, provided they start early enough that the pre-consultation can flag anything needing attention first.
It suits somebody who wants the whole sequence handled as one arrangement. If you would rather have the assessment, the treatment, and the follow-up guidance settled together instead of assembled piecemeal, this is the package built that way.
Fitting it around everyday life
Two visits are involved rather than one, since the pre-consultation and the treatment are separate elements. Plan for both, and plan for a quiet space at home where the appointment can happen without interruption. Access to a power socket is a practical requirement for equipment.
The sensible use point is about timing rather than the treatment. Do not schedule a whitening session on a day that ends with red wine and a curry, and do not book it for the morning of an event when the aftercare window has not been considered. If a date matters to you, work backwards from it and leave room.
Full Treatment For 2 Persons
This package covers two people rather than one, and the important detail is how it is structured internally. It is not one appointment with a second person added on. The assessment element is duplicated while the aftercare element is provided once, in full, across both.
What This Package Includes
As published, it covers two pre-consultations in your home, two laser teeth whitening treatments, and one full aftercare. Two of the first, two of the second, one of the third.
Why two pre-consultations rather than one
Suitability is decided per person, never per household. Two people can share a home, share habits, and drink the same coffee, and still arrive at whitening from completely different starting points — different existing dental work, different sensitivity histories, different gum condition, different underlying tooth structure.
That is why this package duplicates the assessment rather than economising on it. It also raises a possibility worth preparing for: one person may be found suitable while the other is advised to see a dentist first. Booking a shared arrangement does not guarantee a shared outcome, and it is better to know that before the date is set than to discover it on the day.
Why aftercare is provided once, in full
The aftercare element here is described as one full aftercare rather than two separate ones. In practice that reflects how the guidance works. Two people treated in the same household on the same day are managing the same window afterwards — the same first forty-eight hours, the same list of things that stain, the same decisions about meals and drinks.
Delivering that once, thoroughly, to both people at the same time is more useful than repeating it twice. It does mean both of you should be present for it. If one of you steps out to take a call during the aftercare discussion, that person has effectively skipped it.
What to settle between yourselves beforehand
A shared arrangement introduces coordination that a single one does not, and most of the friction is avoidable by deciding a few things in advance. Agree who is assessed and treated first, because somebody has to be, and the second person's appointment sits behind the first one running to time. Agree that both of you will stay for the aftercare discussion rather than treating it as optional once your own treatment is finished.
Agree, too, on what happens if only one of you turns out to be suitable. That conversation is far easier before an assessment than immediately after one, when one person has been advised to see a dentist first and the other is deciding whether to go ahead alone. Neither answer is wrong, but discovering the question mid-appointment makes it harder than it needs to be.
Who this package tends to suit
The obvious case is a couple approaching the same event, most commonly a wedding, an anniversary, or a milestone photograph. Beyond that, it suits two friends who would rather sort this out together than separately, a parent and an adult child, or two people in a household who have both been meaning to do something about staining and would rather not arrange two visits.
It also suits anyone for whom convenience is the deciding factor. Coordinating one visit is meaningfully easier than coordinating two, particularly where work patterns differ.
Fitting it around everyday life
Block out considerably more time than a single treatment would need. Two assessments and two treatments run sequentially, not simultaneously, so the visit is longer for both of you and one of you will be waiting while the other is treated.
The sensible use point specific to this package concerns expectations between the two of you. If one person starts from heavier staining than the other, the visible change will not be identical, and neither person's result predicts the other's. Comparing outcomes afterwards is natural but not especially meaningful. Treat them as two separate results that happened to be arranged on the same day.
Refresh Treatment As Returning Customer
This package is for people who have already been treated and are coming back. It exists because whitening is not permanent, and the position somebody is in a year after treatment is genuinely different from the position they were in before it.
What This Package Includes
As published, it covers one pre-consultation in a local centre, one laser teeth whitening treatment, and one aftercare. Note the first line carefully — the pre-consultation for this package is set in a local centre rather than in your home, which is the structural difference between this package and the others.
Why results need refreshing at all
Whitening lightens teeth; it does not immunise them. The things that caused the original discolouration keep going afterwards. Tea, coffee, red wine, and smoking continue to deposit staining, and enamel continues to thin gradually with age, letting the naturally darker layer beneath show through more.
How quickly that becomes noticeable varies enormously between people, which is why no timescale is attached to this package. Someone who drinks little coffee and does not smoke may go a long time before a refresh feels worthwhile. Someone else may notice the drift far sooner. The trigger is what you can see, not a date in a calendar.
Why the pre-consultation is set in a local centre
For a returning client, the pre-consultation is doing a different job. It is not establishing a baseline from nothing — a previous starting point already exists, along with a record of how your teeth responded last time. What it needs to establish is what has changed since: new dental work, new sensitivity, a change in gum condition, or a shade that has drifted further than expected.
That is a shorter, more targeted conversation than a first assessment, and the published arrangement places it in a local centre rather than at home. If you took the earlier package specifically because the home setting suited you, this is the one practical difference to plan around, and it is worth raising when you enquire.
How a refresh differs from starting again
The practical difference is the baseline. A first treatment begins with an unknown — nobody yet knows how responsive your teeth are, how your gums react, or whether sensitivity will be a factor. A refresh begins with answers to all three, drawn from what actually happened last time rather than from an average.
That changes the conversation rather than shortening the care. It means the discussion can start from how the previous result behaved: how long it held, how quickly it drifted, and whether the aftercare period went as planned. Those details are worth recalling before the pre-consultation, because they are more useful than a general sense that things have faded. If you noticed the change beginning at a particular point, or after a particular habit resumed, say so.
Who this package tends to suit
Straightforwardly, previous clients. It suits somebody who was satisfied with a previous result, has watched it fade gradually, and wants to bring it back rather than start a different approach. It suits people maintaining a result ahead of a recurring event — annual photographs, a yearly occasion, a regular professional commitment.
It does not suit somebody who has never been treated before, however appealing the arrangement looks. The package is built around a history that a first-time client does not have.
Fitting it around everyday life
The main planning point is location rather than time. The pre-consultation happens somewhere other than your home, so travel is involved for that element in a way it is not for the others.
The sensible use point matters more here than anywhere else on this page. Returning does not mean skipping assessment, and a refresh is not something to repeat simply because a promotion is running. How often whitening should be repeated is a clinical judgement based on your teeth, and the right answer sometimes is not yet. If your teeth have become sensitive since the last treatment, or if you have had dental work done in the meantime, say so at the pre-consultation rather than assuming last time's experience still applies.
How to Work Out Which Arrangement Fits
Four questions settle it for most people, and none of them require knowing a figure.
Have you been treated before?
This is the first fork and it closes off options quickly. A refresh arrangement assumes a treatment history and an existing record of how your teeth responded. Without that history, the full first-time arrangement is the applicable one, regardless of how confident you feel about what your teeth need.
Is anyone being treated alongside you?
If a second person genuinely wants treatment at the same time, the arrangement built for two handles it as one visit with duplicated assessment. If they are merely thinking about it, do not fold them in. A package covering two people is only sensible when both are actually committed and both are willing to be assessed.
Where does the pre-consultation need to happen?
This is the difference people most often miss. Two of the published arrangements place the pre-consultation in your home; one places it in a local centre. If travelling is difficult for you, or if the home setting was the reason you chose whitening in the first place, check this line before anything else.
What do the counts actually say?
Read the inclusions as quantities rather than as a list of words. One pre-consultation is not two. One full aftercare shared between two people is not two separate aftercare provisions. The numbers in front of each item are the specification, and comparing arrangements without reading them is how people end up surprised.
Worth asking before anything is settled
A written enquiry is the point at which questions cost nothing, and a few are worth putting in every time. Ask what the current position is on cost rather than working from a figure you saw previously, since promotional terms are presented periodically. Ask what happens if the assessment identifies something that needs a dentist first, so you know whether that pauses matters or ends them. Ask where each element of the arrangement takes place, particularly the pre-consultation, since this differs between arrangements.
If you are unsure which arrangement applies to your situation, or want to confirm the current position before making a decision, you can use the LA Teeth Whitening Contact page to make a written enquiry.
What sits outside every arrangement
None of the published arrangements include dental treatment. If an assessment identifies decay, gum disease, or a restoration needing attention, that is work for a dentist and it is separate from anything described here. Nor do they include replacing or shade-matching existing crowns, veneers, or fillings, which do not lighten with whitening and may look different against newly lightened natural teeth.
They also do not include an outcome. What is being arranged is a professionally delivered whitening treatment carried out properly, with assessment before it and guidance after it. No arrangement on this page commits to a particular shade, a particular number of shades of change, or a particular duration of result.
Practical points on how arrangements are handled
The published position on cost is that the advertised price is inclusive and that there are no hidden charges added later, with a deliberately simple charging process. Major credit cards are accepted. Arrangements begin with a written enquiry, after which someone makes contact — there is no instant online booking, and nothing is confirmed by reading this page.
Promotional pricing is presented on a monthly basis, which is worth knowing for two reasons. It means figures you saw previously may not be current, and it means any figure quoted to you should be confirmed at the point of arranging rather than assumed from memory. If cost is the deciding factor, ask for the current position directly through the Contact page rather than relying on what you remember seeing.
If cost is the deciding factor, ask for the current position directly through the If cost is the deciding factor, ask for the current position directly through the Laser Teeth Whitening Prices page rather than relying on what you remember seeing. page rather than relying on what you remember seeing.
Using Professional Whitening Sensibly
Whitening is a cosmetic treatment applied to natural teeth. It is not dental care, it does not treat anything, and it does not repair damage. Holding that distinction clearly is what keeps expectations reasonable and decisions sound.
Assessment before arrangement, every time
Every published arrangement puts a pre-consultation ahead of the treatment, and that ordering is deliberate. Whitening teeth that need dental attention for other reasons serves nobody. If an assessment sends you to a dentist first, that is the process working rather than failing.
Sensitivity is worth raising early
Temporary sensitivity during or after treatment is commonly reported, as is mild gum irritation, and both usually settle within a short period. If you already know your teeth react to cold or to pressure, say so at the pre-consultation rather than waiting to see. It can be planned for far more easily than it can be managed retrospectively.
Existing dental work does not change colour
Crowns, veneers, bridges, and white fillings keep the shade they were made in. On back teeth this rarely matters. On front teeth it can determine whether whitening produces an even result or an uneven one, and it is a conversation to have before treatment rather than after.
The first days do most of the work
Teeth take on new staining most readily immediately after treatment. The habits that discoloured them originally — tea, coffee, red wine, smoking — will do so again, and they do it fastest in that early window. Aftercare guidance is included in every arrangement precisely because this is the point at which a good result is most easily undone.
Frequency is a clinical decision, not a promotional one
How often whitening should be repeated depends on your teeth, your enamel, and how the last treatment went. It does not depend on how long an offer has left to run. If a refresh is being considered mainly because an arrangement looks favourable this month, that is a reason to ask the question at assessment rather than a reason to proceed.
Important Information About This Page
The descriptions on this page set out what each published whitening arrangement contains and the circumstances each tends to fit. They are general information, not a clinical opinion, and they do not confirm that any arrangement is appropriate for you.
Teeth whitening is a cosmetic procedure. Whether it is suitable in your case depends on the condition of your teeth and gums, your dental history, any existing restorations, and factors that can only be established by a qualified clinician who has examined you. No statement here should be read as a promise of a particular shade, a particular degree of change, or a particular duration of result, and individual outcomes vary.
Nothing on this page constitutes an offer capable of acceptance, and no arrangement can be booked or paid for here. Published costs, inclusions, and promotional terms are set by the business and are subject to change; confirm the current position directly before making any decision. If you have concerns about the health of your teeth or gums, consult a dentist before pursuing cosmetic whitening.