Is Teeth Whitening The Only Way To Help Keep Teeth White?
Tooth Health - 28th Feb 17
We all want bright, white teeth, but sometimes our teeth need a helping hand to look their best. Here, we discover how teeth can lose their natural whiteness and find out what you can do about it.
Your teeth can become dull and discoloured for two basic reasons. Firstly, through staining of either the outside or the inside of the tooth. Secondly, the enamel on your teeth can gradually wear away, allowing the dentine underneath to show through, leaving your teeth looking dull and yellow.
Everybody wants to find ways to keep their teeth looking healthy and white. Here we explore some of the most common methods:
1. Keeping your enamel healthy and white
Enamel is the hard, white layer that protects your teeth, and keeping it strong and healthy is the first step in maintaining bright, white teeth. Acids in our diet, from acidic food and drinks, can weaken this enamel so over time it can wear away. When enamel wears away it can become more translucent, revealing the dentine beneath and making teeth look yellow and dull.1
The Pronamel® range of toothpastes and mouthwashes are specially designed to protect against acid wear to keep enamel strong. The unique optimised-fluoride formulations strengthen teeth by penetrating deep into the enamel surface, helping to reharden weakened enamel, keeping it strong and healthy and protecting your white smile.2
2. Removing surface stains
There are many toothpastes that offer whitening benefits by removing surface stains from your teeth. Sensodyne® Pronamel and Sensodyne® both offer a range of toothpastes that gently whiten teeth. The Sensodyne® Whitening toothpaste range is intended for people who primarily are looking from sensitivity relief. NEW Sensodyne® Pronamel® Strong and Bright is intended for people who are primarily looking to strengthen enamel. It also polishes away stains for whiter, brighter teeth.
3. Teeth whitening treatments
Teeth whitening treatments normally use a bleach called peroxide to penetrate through the enamel and break down stains to remove colour from the dentine. There are home bleaching kits available, or your dental health professional may offer whitening treatments at their surgery. These treatments may be painful for people with tooth sensitivity,3 so it’s worth seeking expert advice from a dental health professional before opting for tooth whitening treatment.
1 Pronamel. What is The Acid Truth? . 2017. Pronamel. What is The Acid Truth? . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.pronamel.co.uk/the-acid-truth.html. [Accessed 27 January 2017]
2 Dentists recommend Pronamel to help protect against the effects of Acid Wear. 2017. Dentists recommend Pronamel to help protect against the effects of Acid Wear. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.pronamel.co.uk/better-protected.html. [Accessed 27 January 2017].
3 ADA Council on Scientific Affairs. 2010. Tooth Whitening/Bleaching: Treatment Considerations for Dentists and Their Patients. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.ada.org/~/media/ADA/About%20the%20ADA/Files/ada_house_of_delegates_whitening_report.ashx. [Accessed 2 February 2017].
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