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Get A Healthy Whiter Smile With Toothbrush, Toothpaste & Whitener Products Professionals Use
Taking care of your teeth means more than brushing with a good toothbrush
twice a day with a flouridated toothpaste, and
visiting the dentist twice a year, but those are
the basics for caring for your smile. As we get
older, problems with bad teeth and gums start to show
in terms of yellowing, chipping or sensitivity.
With age, teeth lose their whiteness and begin to yellow: one
sure-fire way to take years off your appearance is
by whitening your teeth with a home or professional whitener.
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The truth about over the counter whitening toothpastes
Many toothpastes claim to
be "whitening", but when you read the label,
you'll see the only active ingredient is fluoride.
Fluoride is necessary for preventing cavities, but
it doesn't do a thing for whiter teeth. Other
over-the-counter "whitening" products include baking
soda and peroxide. Baking soda wisdom works by friction:
it polishes stains from teeth. But, if your enamel
is thin in places, baking soda can wear it
further, exposing the dentin layer beneath the
enamel. When that happens, you wind up with a
brown spot or pit in the tooth. These spots often
appear along the gemlike, where enamel tends to
wear away naturally and is weak. Whitening
toothpastes can't fix worn enamel: it takes a trip
to the dentist to replace the missing layer with
bonding.
Strengthing and repairing worn tooth enamel
Worn enamel comes with age: it also appears in
younger people who grind their teeth, people who
eat a lot of acidic foods, and people with bulimia
whose enamel has been worn away by stomach acids.
People with chronic heartburn or acid reflux
disease may also have enamel worn off by acid, but
for bruxers (or people who grind their teeth), the
enamel comes off because of the pressure exerted
by the jaws. The enamel flakes or cracks off under
the pressure. If you grind your teeth, your
dentist will recommend that you wear a plastic
night guard over your teeth at night.
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Affordable Dental Plans – Don’t
Break the Bank for a Great Smile
 A
beautiful smile starts with great teeth, but
genetics can create crooked teeth, under or
overbites or even soft enamel prone to cavities.
Teeth may become chipped, abscessed or stained.
But modern dentistry is highly technical and
practically painless. Procedures that once
horrified our parents are now done easily and with
little fuss: root canals, bonding, white fillings
and even tooth replacements are simple dental
procedures.
But if you're going to get a mouthful of teeth
worked on, you're going to still need a pocketful
of money. If you live in a city, there may be a
dental school taking patients at lower cost, but
otherwise, you will want a dental insurance plan
that supports the health of your teeth. Most
employers don't pay dental insurance costs, and
most health insurers will only cover accidental
damage to teeth.
Find inexpensive dental plans that can help you
pay the basic expenses associated with getting
that gorgeous grin:
check them out here.
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Natural tooth whitening remedy and products
Peroxide is the classic at-home tooth whitening
ingredient. Toothpastes like Rembrandt contain
peroxide in a dosage that, over a period of weeks
or months, has a bleaching affect on teeth by six shades or
more. Depending on your teeth's sensitivity, you
may prefer slower-working toothpastes to
quick-acting whitening kits. Bleach can make teeth
sensitive, so if you try a tooth-whitener, go slow
at first, and maybe pair it with a
sensitivity-reducing paste such as Sensodyne.
Professional dentist tooth whitening - $$$$
If you're in a hurry, you can have your teeth
professionally whitened in about an hour at the
dentist's for around $300. Your dentist may use a
combination of topical bleaching gel and a light
activator to get your teeth super-white in no time
at all.
Whiten your teeth without a trip to the dentist
If you don't want to spend several hundred
dollars, you have other options. Rembrandt has a
new two-hour whitening system (Rembrandt 2-Hour
White from www.drugstore.com) that uses trays and
a gel to whiten teeth in a much shorter time than
the usual two-week period needed for other
whiteners. You leave the trays on for 20 minutes,
then take them out for ten minutes, alternating
until the two hours are up. Or you can try other popular at home whiteners, like Crest White Strips, which take about a week to complete the whitening process.
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