STAINING TEETH AND HOW TO PREVENT IT

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March 16th, 2017, 9:56 am

Resarch showed that people with whiter teeth were thought to be more successful in life. But keeping your teeth healthy and white takes more than just regular brushing, flossing and visits to the dentist. You should also watch what you eat and drink.

Several different qualities of foods and beverages make them capable of staining your teeth. If what you're eating or drinking has an intense color, for example, you can be pretty sure it will hang around on your choppers. That color comes from something called a chromogen, a pigment-producing substance that has the ability to latch on to dental enamel and stain teeth.


Some other aspects of what you eat can help chromogens along, too. Foods and beverages that have high acidity levels can erode your teeth enamel, which then gives chromogens even more opportunities to latch on and stick around. Tannins, a type of food compound that binds and precipitates proteins, also help chromogens stick to your enamel.

Speaking of tannins, they're a big component of one of our five major food culprits. What should you avoid? Read on to find out.

Wine

Wine is one of the biggest tooth-staining beverages around. Red wine in particular is a triple whammy: It's acidic; it contains chromogens; and it's full of tannins, naturally occurring plant polyphenols found in grapes, among other foods, that give wine an astringent taste. Tannic acid can etch into tooth enamel, allowing the color to seep into your teeth. This trifecta working together can turn your pearly whites a shade of dingy purplish-red in no time -- just sipping red wine with dinner can be enough to produce dark stains on teeth.

White wine causes its own set of troubles. Even though you won't get the obvious staining as you might with red wine, when you drink a glass of white wine, you're still consuming a highly acidic, tannin-rich beverage. Those components make your teeth more susceptible to staining by other foods and beverages you take in directly after imbibing.

Coffee and Tea

Since they both can be dark beverages and contain tannic acids, coffee and tea are big offenders when it comes to staining your teeth. The problem here is that tooth enamel, or a tooth's outer layer, is really porous. Beverages can therefore seep into those pores and stay there. Tooth enamel, by the way, isn't the white part of your tooth; it's actually a semi-translucent covering of the dentin, the white layer underneath. Coffee is full of chromogens, causing stains on your enamel that make your teeth look discolored over time. Read further...

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