Tooth bleaching

February is National Children's Dental Health Month. Take this opportunity to instill in your preschoolers' minds the importance of dental care. Teach them to properly care for their pearly whites. Of course, you are dealing with preschoolers, so the key is to make the lessons fun! Book A Vist to the Dentist (Little Bill)by Eleanor Fremont Reading Center Fill your reading center with more books about dental health and teeth. Try to find books that will ease the students' minds about dental visits as well as books about losing a first tooth. Naturally, books about the Tooth Fairy will be a big hit! Snack Offer your preschool students fresh fruit and raw vegetables as snacks during the National Children's Dental Health Month theme. Emphasize…

today’s society is outward beauty, which consists of hair, makeup and most importantly a white smile. In order to achieve a pearly white smile, Americans pay 1.4 billion dollars a year on non-prescription whitening products (Barlow, 2012). Most people believe that oral hygiene products were just recently invented, but historians say that Egyptians were the first people group to create a toothpaste (1teethwhitening, 2010). In early history, people would cut off small sticks form special trees…

Teeth whitening has been around for about 15 years, and the idea of having a whiter smile keeps growing in popularity but with almost any cosmetic fad there is the question: “what is the real price?” Bleaching teeth can be done in a dental office or at home. Dental experts have started to question and test over the years whether teeth whitening products harm the enamel. Two different articles address this controversy and share their studies and results. The journal of clinical and experimental…

them worse. For example, if the staining on your teeth was not staining and you got them whitened, the problem on your tooth could turn into an infection or decay. The resulting action would be a root canal or an extraction of the tooth. In the article, "Tooth Whitening--A Safe, Affordable Way to Improve Your Smile," by DentistryIQ.com, also talked about dentist being safer and more prepared than a non- licensed person. Dentist in a dental office specialize there patients whitening session.…

Why Use White Dental Fillings If you’re dentist says you need a cavity, you may immediately think about how it will be filled with a metal filling. However, you may want to ask about using a white dental filling instead. There are several benefits to using a filling that has a natural color, which can convince you to go with this more expensive filling. White Fillings Look Better A primary reason that patients select a white dental filling is because it looks much better when placed in the…

remove stubborn stains, a plethora of mixtures were created to rid of them. A combination of anise seeds, mints and cloves soaked in wine was used. This was used three times a day with a wooden pick for a toothbrush. The concoction did no help at all. It resulted in a dissolved enamel.Other raw materials included honey, ash, powdered rabbits, pomegranate peels and red peach blossom. Now, only a few of those extracts made the cut in modern toothpaste. Mint is one of the oldest and most…

Human Factors are what show our capabilities and limitations on what we can and can’t do, but how do we deal with those bad human factor designs that limit us way more than they normally should? The toothbrush for example when brushing our teeth we can do so horizontally or vertically, yet when it comes to brushing our teeth In the direction that we are most dominant that hand must be bent in a very awkward position. This causes a weird form of brushing our teeth compared to when we brush them…

Popular remedies, such as apple cider vinegar, can be harmful to the teeth. In fact, some home whitening treatments can increase your risk of tooth decay by eating away your enamel. The damage that is done to your teeth by home whitening remedies can be expensive to fix. You may end up spending a lot more money if you choose to whiten your teeth at home. Better Results Not only is it safer to get your teeth professionally whitened by a dentist, but it is also safer. People who attempt to use…

Getting Veneer? Know How To Care For Them Your new dental veneers will do an amazing job at helping them look white and stunning to others. You’ll want to keep them looking that way as long as possible, which means taking good care of the veneers over the years. Here are a few tips that can help you do it. Treat Veneers Like Natural Teeth Even with a full set of dental veneers, it is important that you floss, brush, and rinse with mouthwash regularly. Veneers can still become discolored, and…

vitality of a tooth with an infected pulp. There are two types of pulp capping which are direct and indirect and they can only be successful if the infection in the pulp is not severe. When decay is removed from a tooth, all of the infected enamel and dentin are removed which can cause the pulp of the tooth to be exposed. The goal of pulp capping is to protect the healthy part of the pulp to avoid getting a root canal. Protecting the pulp from heat, cold, and bacteria, a sedative dressing is…