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Whitening Teeth Too Often Can Harm Your Teeth
Whitening your teeth is a great way to get a brilliantly bright smile. However, there is such a thing as overwhitening. Overwhitening can lead to tooth sensitivity, gum irritation, and enamel abrasion. If you’re not careful, in your quest for a perfect smile, you could dangerously cause some serious damage! To avoid this, read on to find out how often you should whiten your teeth.
How Often Should You Whiten Your Teeth?
| Method | How Often? |
| Professional Whitening | Every Four Months |
| Intensive Whitening Products | Used Daily For Two Weeks |
| Teeth Whitening Toothpaste | Everyday |
| Teeth Whitening Strips | Once a day for two weeks |
| Baking Soda | Once daily for a week |
| Charcoal | Once daily for three to five days |
| Banana Peels | Everyday |
If You Visit a Professional
You can’t go wrong with visiting a professional. If you visit a professional, you get the most out of your money because you are guaranteed results for a reasonable price. In the country, the professional teeth whitening salon that you have to visit is The Smile Bar! The Smile Bar promises to turn your teeth an average of 5 shades lighter after just one treatment. A single teeth whitening treatment costs PHP 3999, a double whitening session costs PHP5999, and a triple whitening session costs PHP7499.
What are you waiting for? Visit The Smile Bar and use the promo code GET500 for PHP 500 off any teeth whitening package!
How often you should visit The Smile Bar depends on the look you want to achieve. If you want that with every visit, your teeth turn shades lighter, I recommend booking an appointment at The Smile Bar every 4 months. However, if you want to simply maintain the color of your teeth now, you could limit your maintenance to once every 6 months to 1 year..
If You Use OTC Teeth Whitening Products
If you use OTC teeth whitening products, how often you should whiten your teeth depends on the products you use.
WhiteningEVO Mouthrinse, WhiteningEVO Toothpaste, WhiteningBOOST Toothpaste
I can’t recommend these products enough!
The WhiteningEVO Mouthrinse is the first step to whiter teeth and a healthier mouth! It is used before brushing to help loosen surface stains, making them easier to brush off. It also strengthens the enamel with its high fluoride concentration, which helps protect your teeth from cavities and decay, plaque build-up, and sensitivity.
Following this, you should use the WhiteningEVO Toothpaste. It dissolves and removes existing surface stains and prevents the formation of new ones. It also contains a high fluoride concentration that repairs and rebuilds enamel.
For that extra somethin’ somethin’, use the WhiteningBOOST Toothpaste, an intensive treatment toothpaste that whitens teeth.
The WhiteningEVO Mouthrinse and Whitening EVO Toothpaste can be used everyday as substitutes to your regular mouthrinse and toothpaste. On the other hand, the WhiteningBOOST Toothpaste should be used regularly for two weeks.
Teeth Whitening Strips
Because of how easy and convenient it is to use, teeth whitening strips are one of the most popular ways to whiten teeth. Be sure to read the fine print when you buy teeth whitening strips, because it will often indicate how often you should use them. However, on average, you can use teeth whitening strips once or twice a day for 2 weeks.
If You Use DIY Teeth Whitening Methods
Baking Soda
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Baking soda is best used with toothpaste. Pour a small amount of baking soda into a shallow bowl or dish. Apply a pea-sized amount of toothpaste to your toothbrush, roll the toothpaste in baking soda to coat it in the fine powder, then brush as usual. Baking soda can also be used as mouthwash, with lemon juice, or just with plain water! However, baking soda can be very abrasive. Because of this, it is best to use baking soda once daily for a week every month.
Charcoal
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Charcoal, specifically activated charcoal, is another popular way to whiten teeth. While activated charcoal has been scientifically proven to be effective, it does not come without caveats.
To use activated charcoal, mix it with warm water to form a paste. Apply the paste directly onto your teeth. Don’t rub the mixture onto your teeth, rather, dab or tap it on. Leave the activated charcoal paste on your teeth for three to five minutes. This way, it has time to bind with any stains and plaques that might be present. When the time is up, thoroughly rinse your mouth out and brush your teeth with your usual toothpaste.
It is best to use activated charcoal once daily for 3 to 5 consecutive days, every 3 to 4 months.
Banana Peels
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While there’s little scientific evidence to prove that banana peels whiten teeth, many people still opt to try this harmless DIY teeth whitening method. Take a banana peel and gently rub it on your teeth. Keep rubbing it for about 2 minutes, then thoroughly wash your mouth and brush your teeth. Unlike other teeth whitening tricks, this can be done everyday!
Things To Do In Between Teeth Whitening Sessions
In between teeth whitening sessions, there’s a lot that you can do to maintain your shining smile!
Practice Daily Oral Hygiene
Practicing daily oral hygiene can go a long way. Don’t forget to brush and floss your teeth dailyQ
Maintain A Good Diet
It is also important to maintain a good diet.
This means you should avoid teeth staining agents, like colas, coffee, tea, curry, red wine, and vinegar.
Limiting your sugar intake, incorporating detergent foods into your diet, which increase saliva production and help to clean your teeth (ex. carrots, apples, popcorn and celery), and consuming a lot of nutrient-rich foods, which allow you to get the nutrition you need to keep your teeth at their best state (ex. meat, eggs, milk, yogurt, fruits and leafy greens) are other diet-related measures that you can take to ensure that your teeth whitening efforts don’t go to waste.
Avoid Smoking
Smoking is notoriously known to stain your teeth. If you want to keep your teeth from turning yellow, avoid smoking at all costs!
