Teeth Whitening Tips

With age, our teeth lose their natural color and can also be stained by regularly drinking red wine, coffee, tea or carbonated drinks or smoking. However, all is not lost. You can restore your teeth color by using some effective teeth whitening home remedies such as:

• Rub lemon juice on your teeth: Perhaps one of the best known teeth whitening home remedies is to use lemon juice on your teeth. Pour a few drops of lemon juice on your toothbrush and brush your teeth with it. Lemon, being acidic, helps erode some of the color off your teeth.
• Scrub your teeth with wood ash: To treat your stained teeth, wood ash is a good treatment as it contains substances that can serve to bleach your teeth, while its small crystals helps to scrape off plaque from the surface of your teeth.

• Rub strawberries on your teeth: By doing this, you will be able to get rid of all the stains on your teeth and improves your smile. Being citric like lemons, strawberries can soften the hard enamel of your teeth, but you must wait before brushing off or rinsing the berry mix or otherwise you stand to erode the enamel of your teeth.
• Take off dental plaque with baking soda: To whiten teeth at home, use baking soda as it is a good agent to clean your teeth of its plaque content and make them shine naturally. However, it can be slightly abrasive, so don’t overuse it lest you damage your teeth.
• Rinse your mouth with hydrogen peroxide: Any mouth rinse that contains 1.5% hydrogen peroxide can be used once or twice a day for two years to improve the health f your mouth, tongue and gums. However, to whiten teeth at home, don’t use higher doses of hydrogen peroxide content in your rinses as this may lead to mouth irritation, cancer or reproductive disorders. And yes, don’t swallow it.
• Rub your teeth with orange rind: This has known teeth whitening properties and is very effective when rubbed on the teeth.

Other natural home teeth whiteners include:

• Use a vinegar and water rinse.
• Combine dried orange peel and bay leaves for use as a natural home teeth whitener. You can also add a drop of clove oil to your toothpaste before brushing your teeth daily.
• Rub the bark of a walnut tree on your teeth.
• To minimize any contact with your teeth, form the habit of drinking any liquid with a straw.