Teeth Whitening & Oral Health Blog

Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life. It is one day out of your life when you will be taking hundreds of pictures of you and your spouse, including all of your family and theirs and all of your closest friends. These photos, and these memories, will stay with you throughout your lifetime together and in your family’s lives even after. Many people rightly want a whiter smile for their wedding day, because of these reasons. Getting a whiter smile may cost you some in money, but it will be worth it when your smile is much brighter on your wedding day.

Perfect Smile, Perfect Wedding
On your wedding day, every eye will be on you for the entire evening. Whether you are in gown or tux, what the lighting is like, or what you’ll be eating, the guests will look at each other and proclaim how happy you look with your new spouse, and come in close to see you smile at them as they wish you a long and happy life as a married man or woman. With a whiter, brighter smile you will be able to enjoy your wedding day with more confidence in your pictures, your guests, and your married life. Having your teeth whitened prior to the wedding will make your day that much more perfect.

Your Problem
Intrinsic or extrinsic teeth staining may be your problem, depending on your individual needs. Intrinsic staining is deep-seated stains that are on the layer underneath the enamel. These stains are very difficult to get rid of through basic oral hygiene or rinsing, but require a more deep-seated treatment either in a dentist’s office or at home. Extrinsic staining is much easier to deal with at home. It is characterized by dirt or debris that is stuck and buried in the cracks and ridges of the teeth, and is much cheaper to get rid of, making your smile brighter with less effort. Many people will have some degree of both types of staining, and it is important to take care of both for your wedding day.

Your Options
In-office dentist procedures for your wedding day teeth whitening are very costly and often have more of a chance of causing things like gum irritation or increased sensitivity because of the higher concentration of chemicals found in the solutions they use. If you want results, have the time to develop them, and want to save money, you may want to consider using at-home whitening treatments for your wedding day. They take only a few weeks to see clear results, and are generally much cheaper than in-office options. Mouth trays with bleaching solutions, brush-on whiteners, or whitening strips are options, as well as slightly more expensive but very effective solution and laser light whitening kits. For extrinsic staining, a good whitening mouthwash and toothpaste can take care of it. Combining at-home treatments with good oral hygiene for a few weeks before your wedding should give you the smile you dream of for your wedding day. Whiter Smile has a wide range of teeth whitening ktis and teeth bleaching gel to get your teeth at their whitest for your wedding day.

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White teeth are, let’s face it, very high maintenance. There are literally dozens of different treatments all dedicated to the acquisition and maintenance of white teeth. Just one more road bump on the road to white teeth may be the foods we eat. What foods make your teeth darker or stained in appearance, what other things contribute to the yellowing or coloring of your teeth, and how to fix the problem without ceasing to eat completely are all very important factors to remember when trying to maintain healthy white teeth.

Which Foods
There are a few foods that are commonly known to cause the staining of teeth and a duller smile. These include coffee, red wine, and blueberries.  All of these are very hard on beautiful white teeth, and the teeth whiteners bought to combat these foods can be very expensive. Flavored drinks that contain any dark dye, like powered drink mixes can cause teeth staining. Tea and colas are also common enemies to white teeth, as well as anything that is comprised of soy sauce – soy sauce is common in sauces, ethnic foods and marinades, staining the teeth. Other foods that are or contain staining agents include dark fruit juices, candy bars with dyes, and anything with food coloring in it.

Not Only Foods?
Along with foods, other things that you intake or allow to come in contact with your teeth can also affect their whiteness, and combined with the foods listed above can cause havoc to them. Anything that you eat that causes significant damage to the tooth enamel, like acidic foods and drinks and carbonated beverages, can allow staining particles through the enamel more easily, allowing the material to stain the teeth. Multivitamins often have a considerable amount of iron, which is good in moderation. But keep an eye on it – iron in multivitamins and iron-rich foods like liver or molasses can causing the staining of the teeth. Chewing tobacco, cigarette smoking, and poor dental hygiene are also culprits – perhaps the biggest ones – of stained teeth.

How to Fix It
Obviously we can’t just stop eating all of the above foods because they might stain our teeth, so what to do? Stop smoking or using chewing tobacco immediately – the stains these products cause are truly not nearly as reversible as other staining agents. Dentists suggest rinsing your mouth or brushing your teeth after you eat substances known to cause staining. Good oral hygiene is among the most useful things you can do for your white teeth. If you use whitening solutions found in mouth trays or at-home whitening kits make sure not to eat or drink anything that may stain your teeth afterward. Whitening solutions are especially designed to increase the size of the pores in your enamel and staining agents taken afterward will be able to use those opened pores to actually stain your teeth worse than before. In general if you practice good oral hygiene and take in everything else in moderation, your teeth can stay whiter longer.

Whiter Smile teeth whitening kits and teeth bleaching gel can help remove and whiten these stains.

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The number one morning drink in the country is coffee. Many people who drink it worry about the effects that coffee has on white teeth. There is only a couple of dangers to drinking coffee including the caffeine that it contains and the staining that occurs from drinking it. Because it is an acidic drink the more you drink the more acidic the mouth becomes. When this happens calcium and phosphate are pulled directly away from the enamel which causes the teeth to become weak in structure.

Although your mouth can repair the damage of calcium and phosphate being removed from your teeth, it requires some work and time. The mouth must have more alkaline in order to start rebuilding the enamel through your saliva. This process become extremely difficult when you consider how much soda and coffee the average person ingests. The more acidic the drink, the more alkaline your mouth needs to create the saliva that is needed to repair it. This can also create a more serious problem called acid reflux. Many times the esophagus becomes irritated from the acidic fluids causing it to develop lesions. It takes serious medical attention to correct this condition; all from drinking coffee. This condition can be serious if not cared for and can sometimes feel as though you are having a heart attack.

Caffeine is also found in coffee which interferes with the production of saliva. This causes a dry mouth which can cause tooth decay. There is hope for those who are addicted to caffeine though. It has been proven that drinking a glass of water along with your coffee greatly reduces the risk of tooth decay. The water replenishes the fluid that is drawn out of the mouth by the caffeine. Caffeine is also the problem with stained teeth. This is because the entire mouth is immersed in the hot liquids and causes staining primarily on the top and bottom front teeth. You can reduce staining by drinking iced coffee or tea and sipping it through a straw. This way the liquid bypasses the front teeth staining only the back of the front teeth and the molars.

Many people drink coffee all day never rinsing with water or brushing until the end of the day, by which time, the damage is already occurring. If you must drink it throughout the day, rinse your mouth between cups. You could also spend less time drinking coffee by substituting a glass of water for a cup of coffee. Water is good at making you feel full while coffee does nothing for an empty stomach other than creating acid in the stomach which can cause acid reflux. There is a of damage that can be done by drinking too much coffee. Staining of the teeth can be lessened by using a whitening toothpaste at least twice a day while other damage may take more care than this. Specialised toothpastes can sometimes repair some of the enamel damage and it can also help prevent tooth decay.