Bleaching toothpastes and methods for making and using them

A dental cleaning and bleaching system comprising:

• a vessel,
• an energizer chamber within said vessel,
• a oxygen radical chamber within said vessel, and
• a mixing apparatus that serves to mix contents of said energizer chamber with contents of said oxygen radical chamber to form a useful dental bleach, an energizer phase located within said energizer chamber,
• said energizer containing an energizer substance that will chemically react with an oxygen-containing medium in an oxygen-radical phase to cause release of oxygen ions therefrom at a rate that is greater than a rate of release of oxygen ions from the oxygen-containing medium absent said energizer substance,
• an oxygen radical phase located within said oxygen radical chamber,
• said oxygen radical phase including an oxygen-containing medium.

A dental cleaning system comprising:

• a vessel,
• an energizer chamber within said vessel,
• a oxygen radical chamber within said vessel, and
• a mixing apparatus that serves to mix contents of said energizer chamber with contents of said oxygen radical chamber to form a useful dental bleach, an energizer phase located within said energizer chamber,
• said energizer containing potassium hydroxide and potassium iodide, an oxygen radical phase located within said oxygen radical chamber,
• said oxygen radical phase including an oxygen-containing medium.

A dental whitener comprising:

• a peroxide, and
• potassium iodide,
• said peroxide and said potassium iodide being mixed to yield free radical oxygen, water and heat,
• said heat depleting said peroxide of oxygen in less than one hour.