But you do want to know what you are doing when whitening your teeth, making sure the product is safe and effective. If your pearly whites look yellow or deeply stained, that may happen for various reasons.

Causes of Tooth Discoloration

-Poor or inconsistent daily oral hygiene care
-Skipping professional dental cleanings
-Constant teeth grinding
-Regularly consuming staining foods and drinks like coffee, tea, wine or soda
-Naturally getting older.
-Using tobacco in any form
-Medical treatments like head and neck radiation or chemotherapy
-Certain medications
-Too much fluoride
-Dental trauma from sports

There are typically two teeth whitening options, extrinsic whitening and intrinsic whitening.

Extrinsic whitening: This teeth whitening option involves utilizing a mild abrasive to get stains off of the outside surfaces of your teeth. The tooth color under the stains emerges but unfortunately also doesn’t actually change the tooth’s color either. So it basically brightens your teeth which can make them look fresher.

Intrinsic whitening: This teeth whitening option actually uses a tooth bleaching agent so it can change the color of your tooth enamel, so it not only brightens your teeth but whitens them!

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If you want to start your year with brighter, whiter teeth or just remove stains, our prosthodontists can help you find the best teeth whitening option for your needs so you can achieve a smile you can be proud to show off! Call to learn more about professional teeth whitening and schedule a consultation with our team at 303-586-1019 today!

One of our specialties is cosmetic dentistry. We know how to correct the flaws in your smile, whether it’s cracked or chipped teeth, unsightly gaps between teeth, stained teeth, misaligned or worn down teeth to improve your smile without sacrificing your tooth and gum health. Our cosmetic dentistry solutions include dental veneers, dental bonding, and teeth whitening – all designed to give you the polished, flawless smile you deserve!

Dental Veneers

These thin porcelain or resin shells are applied to the front of your teeth to correct teeth that are misshapen, chipped or discolored, whether for one or all of your teeth. Dental veneers beautifully close the gaps in your teeth, brighten them, straighten uneven, twisted or curved teeth, as well as fix minor damage teeth.

Dental Bonding

By placing a tooth-colored composite resin material onto a flawed tooth, our experienced prosthodontists can shape and sculpt it to overcome flaws so it looks good again. Once hardened, it is polished and shaped to fit perfectly on the tooth. Bonding is good for closing gaps between teeth, correcting a tooth’s shape, lightening unsightly tooth stains, and restoring teeth damaged by chips or cracks. When finished, your bonded teeth will blend in perfectly with your surrounding teeth!

Teeth Whitening

This treatment expertly whitens and brightens stained or discolored teeth, whether from lax dental hygiene care, aging, consuming staining foods and beverages, tobacco use of any kind, sickness, fluorosis or staining medications. Our prosthodontists will look at your goals to come up with a teeth whitening treatment that works for you and how you want your teeth to appear when it comes to brightness and aesthetic appeal.

Our prosthodontists are skilled cosmetic dental experts and are pleased to customize a smile you have always dreamed of. At Denver Restorative Dentistry in Denver, CO, Dr. Taylor Goggins, Dr. Brian Aguirre and Dr. Anna Pitz are excited to help you achieve a healthy, beautiful self-confident smile!

At Denver Restorative Dentistry in the Denver metro area, our team offers a wide range of dental services including custom dental veneers. Our prosthodontists and cosmetic dental experts have helped hundreds of patients improve their smile using dental veneers that we make in our on-site dental lab.

Crafted from thin porcelain or resin shells, our dental veneers can be bonded to the front teeth to give you a Hollywood-worthy smile, just by changing the shape, size and length of your teeth. This may be particularly helpful if you are a smoker or coffee and soda drinker where teeth whitening alone doesn’t quite do the trick.

Thin shelled, opaque porcelain veneers can not only cover permanent dark tooth stains but are also more resistant to staining than your natural teeth. Porcelain is gentle on your gums, making them a good tooth enhancement option. Not only can dental veneers re-shape and straighten out the look of an uneven tooth to appear flawless, but they can also fill in gaps and spaces between your teeth that make you feel self-conscious whenever you smile. Another benefit to porcelain is that it not only conceals damage on the tooth’s surface but is also strong enough to increase the tooth’s structural integrity as well as appearance.

Porcelain dental veneers are designed to blend in seamlessly with your natural teeth so no one knows you are wearing them. By hiding your smile imperfections, our dental veneers protect your teeth that have chips and cracks, keeping them strong and intact. Best of all, dental veneers are easy to maintain! You simply brush and floss them with your natural teeth every day to keep your smile healthy and bright. Porcelain dental veneers are meant to last for decades with proper daily oral hygiene and routine dental checkups and cleanings. Your dental veneers are custom-crafted by our master dental technicians so you get the highest quality results you want.

If you want to take the next step in creating a more attractive smile you can be proud of, our experienced team at Denver Restorative Dentistry in Denver, CO, invite you to meet with one of our skilled dental experts, Dr. Goggins, Dr. Aguirre and Dr. Pitz, to evaluate your smile and help you come up with a solution you will love!  Call 303-586-1019 today and start out the upcoming fall season with your most beautiful smile yet!

–Using a straw: Sipping staining drinks from a straw can effectively limit their ability to discolor your teeth. This goes equally for fruit juices, soda, lattes, or tea. Drinking through a straw will help keep the staining agents from discoloring the visible areas of your smile while also preventing tooth sensitivity.

–Brush, floss and use mouthwash: By removing food debris after eating or drinking staining foods helps limit their ability to discolor enamel. This simple action removes lingering staining agents and rinsing with an antibacterial mouthwash helps prevent plaque from forming. Plaque is a sticky substance that allows staining agents a foothold to adhere to.

–Say no to tobacco: Unfortunately, tobacco stains are notorious whether you chew or smoke it. In fact, tobacco is the one tooth staining habit we strongly encourage giving up as it affects your oral health as well as your overall health. Fortunately, there are tobacco cessation programs available to help you take the leap. Speak to your doctor for more information.

–Professional dental cleanings: Professional dental cleanings are vital to a healthy smile. These cleanings let us remove hardened plaque which otherwise provides a surface which stains can adhere to.

As you can see, if you regularly enjoy teeth staining foods such as blueberry for dessert or beets for your health, you don’t have to stop eating them just to keep your pearly whites bright.

Our Denver Restorative Dentistry team is here to help you keep your smile bright. We offer teeth whitening treatments for our patients in Broomfield, Colorado seeking help with their tooth stains. If you are interested in a tooth whitening treatment, please call 303-586-1019 today!