Teeth tend to darken over time. Even though your lifestyle, daily hygiene and food habits play a major role in this process, the truth is that teeth’s loss of their natural white and brightness affects, to a greater or lesser degree, all people.
Teeth tend to darken over time. Even though your lifestyle, daily hygiene and food habits play a major role in this process, the truth is that teeth’s loss of their natural white and brightness affects, to a greater or lesser degree, all people.
What is teeth whitening?
Teeth whitening is a treatment that lightens the color of your teeth by several shades, leaving them much whiter and brighter and providing them with a healthy and youthful look. Once patients know which type of treatment they are going to submit to, their most frequent doubts are focused on the frequency they need to perform such treatment and their long-lasting effect over the months.
However, these questions depend on two factors: the type of whitening and the person’s circumstances.
Next, we are going to give you some advice to help you keep your teeth white for longer.
How to make it last longer?
Below, we collect different tips to help your teeth whitening remain intact for longer.
1.Daily Hygiene
This is one of the most important points to keep your oral health, regardless of having undergone teeth whitening or not.
To hold bacteria in check that accumulates in the mouth after eating and which provokes dental plaque that damages the enamel and causes dental decay, it’s necessary to brush your teeth several times during the day (after every meal).
2.Food
There are certain foods and drinks that tend to produce stains on the dental enamel. Although it’s not necessary to stop consuming them, it’s advisable to eat such food in moderation if you wish to keep your teeth white for more time.
Some examples of these foods and drinks are: berries, red wine, tea, coffee, spices (paprika, saffron…) and sauces (curry, soy…)
3. Tobacco
Tobacco is not only one of the worst enemies of healthy and white teeth - provided that it causes stains - it also harms our general good health. Therefore, the more this habit is restricted or eliminated, the more beneficial it would be for the person.
4. Maintenance
Once the patient has submitted to a teeth whitening treatment, it’s advisable to carry out periodic maintenance to ensure that teeth color and brightness last more.
However, when it comes to periodicity, we need to take into account that not all patients have the same needs -or likes-.
While there are people that five years after their treatment keep their color and brightness intact -and they don’t perform any follow-up-, there are other patients, especially demanding with their look that demand maintenance every one or two years.
5.Professional dental cleaning
Although the frequency of having a dental cleaning varies according to each patient and the amount of dental plaque he accumulates, patients that have undergone teeth whitening habitually do it once a year.
In spite of all these guidelines that undoubtedly will make your whitening more effective and lasting, the best advice of our dentists and hygienists is that you lead a normal life.
Once you perform teeth whitening, teeth will always be whiter than they were before starting the treatment. And those habits that cause your teeth to become yellow can be compensated with hygiene and periodic maintenance.
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