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Genotoxicity and oral tissue damage associated with tooth bleaching agents: A scoping review.

Tooth bleaching is one of the most frequently performed esthetic procedures in dentistry. Although peroxide-based bleaching agents effectively promote color change, their decomposition generates reactive oxygen species that may induce oxidative stress, cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, inflammation, and oral tissue alteratio...