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

A recent Huberman Lab Podcast goes into great detail about how brushing isn’t cleaning your teeth, it’s just removing the film of bacteria that damage your teeth, so that your natural ability to build UP your dentine can occur. You are talking about wearing down that Dentine? That’s not how you get better teeth…

I think it’s will worth a listen.
Knowing that I need to brush my teeth isn’t enough to get me to do it. Understanding why I need to is what does it..

[link to the podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1a8838wqGqztgm8nclNF6Y?si=zbdrCt0XR5y0X0iJavwSVA)