2006-10-18 12:18:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
Usually its colas and coffee and its the caramel coloring in the products. In addition, the acids in colas eat away at your enamel and make colors easier to absorb.
2006-10-18 12:20:47 · answer #1 · answered by gahrahstah 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Almost anything can stain your teeth. Teeth always have stain, microscopic or not. Your teeth, just like all your other bones, are porous, so they absorb liquids and other particles carried by the liquids. The finer the liquid, the easier they're absorbed. The darker the color, the more obvious and the quicker the stain. Place little drops of all liquids that you drink on a white dense cotton shirt (or any porous material similar to teeth) and observe the differences. Remember that your saliva is liquid too so it's a carrier for stain particles like cigarette smoke and other dirt in the air around you (are you paranoid yet?)
Just brush your teeth after every meal (after snacks too if you can, I know I can't) and you should be able to keep stains in your teeth way below a noticeable level. Of course any stain level that you have absorbed since you were born can only be reduced so much. Some of it have already chemically bonded with your teeth.
Cheers! (toothy smile)
2006-10-18 13:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by HORGA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many causes. The most common include consumption of foods, coffee, tea, wine, sodas, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and smoking. The stain color results from a chemical reaction occurring in the plaque.
Other causes of discoloration could be due to certain childhood illnesses, medications, physical trauma (these aren’t responsive to bleaching treatment ), old fillings as well as aging that may even contribute towards the darkening of your teeth.
In other words, our teeth naturally get more and more stained as time goes on and as we continue to live our lives.
2006-10-18 12:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by hehmommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colgate Whitening Mint Toothpaste
2016-05-22 00:43:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
caffeine, if you are drinking dark colas, use a straw, if you smoke, brush more than once a day, if you have taken tetracycline for any infections, get your teeth seen to by a dentist, beer, wine and other very high sugar drinks will also stain your teeth... and yeah... GRAPES! LOL
2006-10-18 12:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by moejaymom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its color ingredient... even non-color liquid stains... so, it is advisable that we have to brush our teeth 3 - 4 times a day...
2006-10-18 12:22:08 · answer #6 · answered by danieldenzel2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
everything here is true, but they forgot to list chocolate. THat's a major stainer no one really talks about
2006-10-22 06:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by dso116 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually tannin (coffee,tea, wine),
2006-10-18 12:21:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are way to many to list!
2006-10-18 12:21:20 · answer #9 · answered by cshell442003 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Coffee and/or tea
2006-10-18 12:20:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋