It would be really great to have a million dollar smile.  The idea has been thrown around that baking soda can help whiten your teeth.  Let’s have a closer look at this and decide whether Baking Soda can whiten our teeth or not.  As all of you know, the chemical name of baking soda is Sodium bicarbonate.  It can be found naturally in mineral springs and it can also be produced artificially.  It dissolves very easily in water.

Baking soda gives your teeth a whiter appearance by removing tough stains.  It works to remove dulling plaque and deep stains that are embedded deep in the tooth surface, by dissolving in water in that area. Once it is dissolved in water, baking soda slightly changes its chemical form and gives off free radicals which penetrates the surface of the teeth enamel and combine with stain molecules, breaking carbon bonds, changing stain molecules from a dark color to a clear one.  So the teeth become white in color.  Yellow and brown stains are easier to change than the grey ones.  So technically speaking, baking soda can whiten teeth.

There are plenty of tooth pastes that contain baking soda and you would like to try one of these first.  But plain baking soda is readily available and also very cheap.  Baking soda can also help to freshen breath, dissolve plaque and prevent decay, along with gently removing the stains, thus helping your teeth to get whiter.

It is a belief that in order to truly whiten your teeth, you must visit a dentist.  You can visit a dentist once in six months, for cleaning, lighten and polish of your teeth.  But an easier method is to use baking soda at home and you may get the same effect. The most important thing is that don’t forget to visit a dentist once in a while, which will help you to keep your teeth healthy.

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Some people are born with teeth that are more yellow in color than others. Teeth also get yellow with growing age.  Your natural tooth color can also get affected by many factors, like using tobacco, drinking tea, coffee, red wine or by eating highly pigmented food such as cherries and blue berries.

Accumulation of tartar on the surface of the teeth, which results from plaque that has been hardened.  Internal stains can be caused by under going treatment with antibiotic medicines, during the time when the teeth are forming.  Yellow or greying of the teeth occur as a part of the aging process.

Let’s have a look at the ways to whiten teeth.  Thorough cleaning by a dentist will remove most external stains caused by food or tobacco.  Using a whitening toothpaste will help in removing the stains from the surface of the teeth, between visits to the dentist.  If the stains have been present for years, you may need to have your teeth professionally whitened to remove those stubborn stains.

Internal stain can be bleached, bonded or crowned.  Though these methods are safe and effective, your dentist will recommend the best treatment for you depending on the state of your teeth.  Whitening teeth can be done at the dentist’s office or at home using whitening get, that oxidize out the stain. At home whitening is the more papular approach, where your dentist takes an impression of your teeth and makes a custom fitted tray, which you can fill it with whitening gel and wear it up to two hours daily for about two weeks.

Less frequent and more expensive method takes from 30 minutes to one hour per your visit to dentist.  Several visits may be needed to get the desired result.  Even after whitening the teeth may become yellow after some time.  So to avoid the stain coming back again, avoid smoking, coffee, tea, red wine and heavily colored food. Brush your teeth twice a day with whitening tooth paste.

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