Or do they???!!!
A little bit of milk in the tea works wonders.
My dentist says to swish water around in your mouth after you drink tea. (I don’t drink coffee or smoke but I imagine it’s helpful for that too.) And my electric toothbrush has also helped a lot to reduce stains compared to my regular manual brush.
Don’t swish, and don’t drink so the liquids hit your teeth first.
Liquid should hit your tongue and slide to the back of your throat.
Smokers do the opposite: they let the smoke hit their front teeth and then the smoke “bathes” the entire mouth. That’s why smoker’s teeth are disgusting and noticeable from a mile away.
I drink a lot of coffee, but drink water at the same time. Never used a whitening product unless you count toothpaste, my teeth are a healthy-looking off-white!
I know a hippy(relevant detail) who regularly drinks coffee, worked as a barista for half her life, and her teeth are like movie star white, because she does oil pulling to keep them that way.
I tried it, didn’t do much for me after a couple months, but her teeth were yellow one year and then the next time I saw her they were totally white, and she said it was from oil pulling that year, which is basically swishing coconut oil around in your mouth for 5 or 10 minutes and then spitting it out
her teeth was like crazy white and she said she had to stop doing oil pulling for a while because people were starting to freak out over how white her teeth were and she couldn’t talk to anyone without them being like what’s up with your crazy white teeth.
and they were absolutely yellow the year before. or, you know, like normal human yellow.
swishing coconut oil around in your mouth for 5 or 10 minutes
Holy hell. I’m getting grossed out well before a minute of swishing anything.
Or she went to a dentist and got them whitened. The natural color of teeth is slightly yellow.
very unlikely.
I won’t say impossible, but is extremely unlikely for a few reasons.
she’s literally the last person I would expect to get teeth whitening from the dentist.
she doesn’t shave her legs or use makeup or anything, doesn’t really make sense that she would get teeth whitening.
hasn’t even got her wisdom teeth out yet, terrified of dentists.
quick note, the outermost layer of teeth is white.
You’re talking about the inner layer, dentin.
most yellow coloring on teeth is from use over the years, oils and fats and stains like coffee or alcohol that color the white enamel.
Dentin itself, the part of the teeth you see, is naturally white.
she couldn’t talk to anyone without them being like what’s up with your crazy white teeth.
I think we’d all like to know how that feels, even though no-one would enjoy it in the long run.
yeah, I think I’m going to get a jar of coconut oil and try it again.
maybe it also has a cumulative effect?
after 2 and 1/2 months or something I thought My teeth looked one shade whiter, but then I gave up.
Why not give it another whirl?
Hmm. I might give this a go as well if I locate a jar and it doesn’t taste too bad.
