But not everyone has a perfect smile. And one of the most damaging (and yet treatable) conditions for your teeth is yellowing. Yellow teeth can turn your smile, and personality, down several notches.
The good news is that The Glenroy Dental Group has several effective ways to defeat yellowing, including prevention and treatment approaches. If you suffer from a yellow smile, we’d like to be your partner in battling it.
If you think you need an upgrade to your smile, The Glenroy Dental Group is happy to sit down with you for a consultation as to what treatment is right for your bright, white smile.
Tooth discoloration can either be caused by extrinsic stains or intrinsic stains.
Extrinsic Stain Causes
Extrinsic stains are a lot like stains on a tablecloth. You constantly eat foods with colour pigments and, inevitably, some of that colour ends up on your tooth enamel, and some of it stays there if not dealt with quickly.
Even though foods can cause your teeth to stain, you can’t avoid all foods that can potentially stain your teeth. To do that, you’d have to stop eating even some healthy foods. Luckily not all foods and drinks are equally likely to stain your teeth, and some of the worst culprits can be avoided through lifestyle changes.
Some of the main causes for extrinsic staining include:
You don’t have to stop drinking hot beverages, red wine and cola entirely, but it’s best to cut back on your intake. In truth, any foods that are colorful can stain your teeth, even healthy ones. This would include tomatoes, pomegranates and other bright fruits. Drinking these drinks with straws, and rinsing your mouth with water when finished, can help you battle these kinds of stains.
Intrinsic Stains Causes
Intrinsic stains are more complicated. With intrinsic staining, what causes tooth yellowing isn’t something else staining the tooth. Instead, the tooth naturally becomes dull-looking.
Unlike with extrinsic staining, tooth yellowing through intrinsic staining can be caused by a variety of things, not only diet and lifestyle.
The causes of tooth discolouration can be:
We use high-quality whitening systems that are designed to create long-term effects. When combined with good dental hygiene habits our treatments mean you will experience very minimal whitening loss over time. Also, our treatments are safe and won’t harm your teeth and delicate gums.
In-Office Whitening
Take-home Whitening
While tooth-whitening is a very common and successful treatment of yellowed teeth, in cases of seriously intrinsically stained teeth your The Glenroy Dental Group dentist may recommend veneers to upgrade your smile. If discolouration is caused by chipped or damaged teeth, your Glenroy dentist will check for tooth-grinding (“bruxism”) and recommend a mouthpiece of some other form of treatment.
The good news is that, whatever the cause of your dental yellowing, The Glenroy Dental Group has an appropriate treatment!
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