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Am I right not to go ahead with laser whitening?

  • 22-09-2012 09:34AM
    #1
    gebbel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭


    I impulsively purchased an internet deal to get my teeth laser-whitened for €50. Turns out the business doesn't even have a website, and making the booking involved a pleasant teenager answering the phone and calling her mother over. This has not inspired me with much confidence and I decided yesterday that I'm not going ahead with it on the grounds that their setup doesn't appear to be professional to me. Don't care about losing the cash if the T&C'S don't allow a refund. I'm well aware of caveat emptor etc.

    Just wondering if I am being rational or irrational here?


Comments

  • #2
    randel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭randel


    "Fools and their money......"

    Go to a Dentist and get a proper professional job done.


  • #3
    gebbel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭gebbel


    I believe I am not a fool but I take your point. What's the story with regulation (sorry lack of) on all these whitening salons or whatever they are?


  • #4
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    gebbel wrote: »
    I believe I am not a fool but I take your point. What's the story with regulation (sorry lack of) on all these whitening salons or whatever they are?

    Go with your gut on this one....


  • #5
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Sounds like your making the correct decision to me, 50 euro is way too cheap and will involve neither a properly qualified operator nor quality bleaching material. Remember that on a groupon the provider is getting 50% so they are working for 25 euro, to be able to even buy quality bleach and make a reasonable profit is impossible.


  • #6
    Big_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Big_G


    There is only one laser that I know of that can activate bleach and it costs €20000. So it's definitely not laser whitening, all the systems that claim "laser" are definitely not. False advertising.


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  • #7
    prettyinpink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭prettyinpink


    I got my teeth laser-whitened in my dentist back in March and it cost me €400, €50 seems far too cheap to be legit.


  • #8
    Big_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Big_G


    prettyinpink wrote: »
    I got my teeth laser-whitened in my dentist back in March and it cost me €400, €50 seems far too cheap to be legit.

    Not laser whitened. Blue light bleached.


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