Ways to Care for your Teeth

Healthy and white teeth may change your social and professional life. Small things sometimes can make a big impression, great teeth is part of beauty; it is one of the first things people notice, they are signs of good health and confidence.

Smoking, food and drinks such as chocolate, tea, coffee and high intake of alcohol can affect the teeth as we age, so by taking good care of your teeth and maintaining clean and white teeth could keep the structure of your mouth and teeth in shape. 

Here are some of ways to care and maintain healthy and whitening teeth:

• Proper Dental Daily Care: Brushing your teeth morning and night every day will ensure that your teeth do not get yellow over a period of time.
• Using a soft toothbrush: Avoid using a medium or hard toothbrush, as hard and medium toothbrushes can only make your teeth yellow in the long run as they are more prone to strip away the perfect white enamel from your teeth.
• Floss: Flossing once daily either in the morning or at night can help to remove the plaque and food, which is beyond the reach of your toothbrush. Flossing your teeth helps in keeping perfect white teeth.
• Quit smoking: Smoking affect the teeth, it causes tooth discolouration, it can also cause gum disease since it weakens the immune system and makes it harder to fight any gum diseases.
• Use a therapeutic mouthwash: Therapeutic mouthwash can help to reduce and prevent gingivitis. Rinsing your mouth with mouthwash can help to remove food particles and debris from your mouth.
• Watch what you eat: The kind of food you eat on daily basis can either help or affect your teeth, dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese are rich in calcium, they help with the strengthening of bones and teeth, avoid food with lots of sugar as they can affect the teeth causing tooth decay and gum disease.

Causes of Tooth Discolouration

• Smoking: Smoking can stain your teeth after many years of smoking.
• Food and drink: Coffee, tea, red wine and fizzy drinks can stain your teeth and food like curries, tomato sauce, blackberries, cranberries, blueberries can also cause discolouration to your teeth of the colour.
• Poor dental Hygiene: By not brushing and flossing regularly to remove plague and stains from food, drinks and smoking can lead to tooth discolouration
• Age: Stained teeth can occur as we age, the crack in the tooth enamel becomes eroded making the dentin more vulnerable to staining.
• Medication: There are some medications such as antibiotics that can cause tooth discolouration.

Advice

• Eating foods such as broccoli, celery, cucumbers and carrots as they act as a natural scrub to clean your teeth. They also lead to production of more saliva, which contributes to wash away debris on your teeth.
• Using a straw is a very good way to keep teeth white because its avoids too much of contact with the teeth
• Chewing sugarless gum as it tends to clean teeth and also trigger production of saliva. Saliva helps in neutralising the acid that cause tooth decay.
• See the dentist regularly to check for any underlying tooth and gum diseases, check for cavities and to see if there is plaque or tartar on your teeth. Also keep your teeth and gums healthy.