Colgate-Palmolive, 3Shape Team Up on Tailored-to-Patient Teeth Whitening Tool

A new partnership will help Colgate Illuminator–an in-clinic predictive tool that shows personalized results for consumers of Colgate’s high-impact teeth whitening product, Colgate Optic White Professional—illustrate the potential results for patients as well as help them visualize what they may achieve.

Colgate-Palmolive Company and 3Shape are partnering to introduce the Colgate Illuminator, an exclusive, tailored-to-patient teeth whitening tool, to dental clinics across the U.S. The new tool will enable more accurate consultations and deliver an improved patient experience.

Colgate-Palmolive, whose brand Colgate is found in more homes than any other, and 3Shape, a leading digital dentistry 3D scanner software and service provider, Monday introduced the Colgate Illuminator.

This new tool is a great way to illustrate the potential results for the patient and help them visualize what they may achieve. Dentists can access the new Colgate Illuminator software via the groundbreaking new 3Shape Unite digital dentistry platform. From there, dentists can provide each patient with a scan that conveys a simulation of the predicted outcome from the whitening treatment.

3Shape’s new software, available to dentists as an in-clinic app, employs an evidence-based algorithm to display an interactive “before and after” patient photo. The process takes just seconds and, based on a patient’s age and teeth shade, the 3Shape software provides a predictive preview of how the teeth will look following the treatment process.

This collaboration aims to help remove the guesswork and alleviate the apprehension patients often feel when they visit a dentist to discuss teeth whitening treatments.

“With this predictive, innovative tool, dentists can personalize the whitening experience by showing patients how their teeth could whiten when using Optic White Professional high-impact tooth whitening products based on results achieved in clinical studies,” says Dr. Maria Ryan, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief clinical officer. “And we believe patients are going to love seeing what is possible and how their bright new smile could look.”

Colgate Optic White Professional whitening treatment is designed for no tooth sensitivity, no gum irritation, and no mess, offering dramatically whiter teeth in just 5 days when used as directed.

Jakob Just-Bomholt, 3Shape’s chief executive officer, says, “Colgate’s incredible whitening solution is now paired with 3Shape’s market-leading software and integrated into the groundbreaking 3Shape Unite platform. We’ve created a smile whitening simulation tool that has the potential to really help ease patients’ esthetic concerns.”

Just-Bomholt adds that the tool is fast and powerful, and that partnerships like this are the way forward when advancing patient care and improving the patient experience. Colgate customers can now have quick and simple dentist consultations that model realistic predicted whitening transformations as part of a tailor-made experience.