Bleachorexia—an addictive behavior to tooth bleaching: a case report

Bleachorexia, addiction to tooth bleaching, is a behavioral disorder similar to anorexia. The patient feels that their teeth are always not white enough and continues to use whiteners to obtain a “perfect” smile. Such behavior falls under the category of a body dysmorphic disorder and may need medic...

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Autores principales: Lee, Denzel Kun‐Tsung, Kastl, Cameron, Chan, Daniel C. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1402
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description Bleachorexia, addiction to tooth bleaching, is a behavioral disorder similar to anorexia. The patient feels that their teeth are always not white enough and continues to use whiteners to obtain a “perfect” smile. Such behavior falls under the category of a body dysmorphic disorder and may need medical counseling.
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spelling pubmed-59302212018-05-09 Bleachorexia—an addictive behavior to tooth bleaching: a case report Lee, Denzel Kun‐Tsung Kastl, Cameron Chan, Daniel C. N. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Bleachorexia, addiction to tooth bleaching, is a behavioral disorder similar to anorexia. The patient feels that their teeth are always not white enough and continues to use whiteners to obtain a “perfect” smile. Such behavior falls under the category of a body dysmorphic disorder and may need medical counseling. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5930221/ /pubmed/29744085 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1402 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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