Why can’t we just spend however long it takes to brush our teeth over and over again until they’re as clean and white as they were when we first got them? (Like dentist office billboard advertisement levels of white teeth)

Question

Or is restoring a former brilliance of your teeth impossible through normal dental hygiene practices without cosmetic dentistry?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Enamel is basically almost transparent white tinted glass with 0.1 to 3 millimeters thick, dentin on the other hand is yellowish even brownish opaque tissue and more thick than 3mm. With time the dentin gets more yellow/brown so the natural color of your teeth when young is clearer, but as you get older it starts getting darker. There is a difference between clean teeth and white teeth that a lot of patients don’t really understand. Probably in billboards as in tv/magazines/famous people the teeth are whitened or photoshopped to look whiter, so people tend to look for that but please remember it is not natural. Bleaching your teeth can be done with almost 0 consequences while performed by a dentist, personally I don’t offer it to patients as it is only an esthetic thing. Hope this helps