8 Tips for healthy and whiter teeth

Tips for healthy and whiter teeth

1. Watch what you drink

Some drinks, like coffee, soda water, black tea, red wine, or candy, as well as smoking, dull the enamel of teeth. If you cannot deny yourself a pleasure of drinking a cup of strong coffee in the morning or a glass of red wine before you go to bed, you need to take special care of your teeth. Be sure to brush teeth carefully every time after you have smoked a cigarette, drunk glass of wine or cup tea, have eaten a candy. Whitening toothpastes, containing polishing remedies, can be useful in a certain degree to remove stains from the enamel of teeth, especially if they are used regularly.

2. Watch what medications you take

Some prescription medications, such as antibiotics of tetracycline row, can darken the natural color of your teeth. There is really not much you can do with it, but moderate dental treatment can really make wonders!

3. Whitening teeth at home

To make your teeth sparkle again, ask any dentist to recommend you the up-to-day whitening products that can suit the natural needs of your teeth. Please take into consideration that yellowish teeth, which have dulled their colour because of drinks or smoking, usually lighten well again. But if your teeth gained a brownish or greyish colour because of antibiotics in a young age, commercial whitening products may be ineffective.

4. Custom-made tray 

A more expensive but also more effective method to revive and lighten your teeth is to use a unique tray, manufactured by your dentist specially for you. Such trays contain solution of carbamide peroxide and fluoride. These components work softly and lighten teeth faster. The only disadvantage of this method is that it increases sensitivity of teeth. The cost of such unique tray may vary from $250 and up to $500.

5. Magic baking soda

Baking soda is the most popular of all the home teeth whiteners. All you need is to take a little bit of water and add a pinch of baking soda and to mix them up to a consistency of a paste. Then brush your teeth using your toothbrush, but let the your paste stay on for 2-3 minutes, then gargle to wash it away. The only drawback is that the prepared paste does not have a good taste.

6. Lemon and salt

You may also try lemon and salt for whitening. They are a perfect whitening products. Mix grated lemon and salt into a paste. Cover it all over your teeth once a day before you go to bed.

7. Orange peel

For your teeth to become whiter you may try to rub your teeth with white side of orange peel This will give a polished shine if you will not forget to do this three times a day. However, sometimes it causes sensitivity.

8. Is it not enough?

If all the above methods of teeth whitening do not feet the needs of your teeth, or if you desire even whiter teeth, you may be interested in bonding (a resin put over teeth) or porcelain veneers. Bondings and veneers are made in a dentist laboratory. The cost of these whitening methods is more substantial – up to $300 for bonding and up to $1,500! for porcelain veneers (per tooth). But an irrefutable advantage of these methods is that you can choose brilliantly white and shiny teeth for the rest of your life!