HP6

Chapter One

Whitening the patient can actually stick with.

Most patients don’t want to sleep in trays. They want to whiten while making dinner, watching telly, commuting home — and then get on with the evening. HP6 is Dr Wyman Chan’s answer: a 6% hydrogen peroxide gel calibrated specifically for one-hour daily wear in a Perfect Trays setup.

No overnight commitment, no zinging cold drinks the next morning, no gradual slide from enthusiasm to “I think I’ll take a break.” Compliance goes up. Complaints go down. And because HP6 fits into conscious bleaching protocol properly — patient awake, sensitivity signalled the moment it appears — your team stays in control of the case all the way through.

Our protocol

We only whiten while the patient is awake.

Dr Wyman Chan coined the phrase conscious bleaching back in 2003, and it's the protocol choice that quietly fixes the most problems.

Overnight whitening is still the default in plenty of practices, and we understand the appeal — the patient does nothing, you see a new shade at the next appointment, everyone's happy. But overnight bleaching has one stubborn flaw: the patient can't tell you when it's starting to bite. Sensitivity builds in the dark, hour by hour. By morning, the enamel is upset, the patient is uncomfortable, and you're the one having the awkward follow-up call about a week off.

The DOCS whitening protocol is built around the opposite idea. H2O2 never stays in the mouth for more than an hour per session, once or twice a day. One hour a day with HP6 and Perfect Trays. A careful paint-on with Get2Smile. The patient is awake throughout, and a single twinge of sensitivity is an immediate signal to pause — not a three-in-the-morning surprise. The day after, they whiten for a minute less than the time the first twinge arrived, and the protocol self-tunes around them.

It sounds almost trivial written down. In practice, it's why whitening cases on this protocol tend to generate so few sensitivity complaints. The patient becomes the early warning system, and the early warning system actually works — because they're awake to use it. If sensitivity shows up within twenty minutes of bleaching, that's the signal to switch to DWC8 in trays for two hours a day over two weeks, desensitise first, and pick up the whitening once the teeth are calm. Your team gets to make the call with them, in the moment, rather than picking up the pieces the next day.