Tooth Stains

Tooth Stains are they a problem for you? Would you like to know the type of drink stains the tooth the most? Or what toothpaste will get stains?

Do they make you feel embarrassing to talk to others?

Do you feel lessening your self image? Don’t discourage, there is hope yet. This page is speaking directly to you.

The teeth and tongue are often unclean in spite of natural cleaning factors present in oral cavity.

The cleaning factors such saliva, detergent foods, tongue, cheeks, and lips, the arrangement and smoothness of the surfaces of the teeth act to maintain clean the mouth.

Sometimes these factors don’t arrive to prevent from the adherence of some stain on the teeth.

What are about stains?

There are two categories tooth stains:

I-Exogenous

• That arrives from colored substances introduced into the mouth to drink such as: food, medicine, tobacco, and from the action of chromogenic bacteria.

This category is subdivided into those which are of metallic composition and those which are of non metallic composition.

• In the other side: there is endogenous staining which is most often indicative of pulpal death.

• Metallic staining found in people who take some medicine containing metals or their salts (iron), and in certain workers of metal products fabrication.

Whereas, in the plaque there will be accumulation of metallic dust by inhalation on the teeth in these workers.

•A Bluish-Green Stain touches especially the workers in copper or bronze.

Iron supplement

Brown stains usually arrive from the use of drugs with iron supplement or from the industrial inhalation of iron containing metals. These stains may be brown to black in color

Silver staining is frequently caused by the using of silver nitrate on the teeth by the dentist.

Non Metallic Stains

• This is the penetration of colored substances into plaques when you drink and accretions exiting on the teeth.

But the stains that have penetrated pits, fissures, and porous areas of the teeth will not be easy to move out.

Black Stain

• There are two variations the ones including the black stains by the products of tobacco combustion and the other from chomogenic bacteria.

Tobacco stains may be dark brown or black found most frequently on the lingual (inside face) surfaces of the teeth, mainly in regions where pipes, cigars, or cigarettes are held.

Green Stain

• Found most often on the teeth of children may or may not be related to the remains of the enamel debris.

Orange Stain

• Those stains are associated to soft plaques on the teeth and to the action of chromogenic bacteria. They may be easily removed by polishing agents.

II-Endogenous

After a violent impact, the pulp of the tooth maybe dead causing an internal discoloration because of decomposition of blood pigments.

Thus, the tooth has a grayish or blue-black discoloration. Endogenous stains may arrive also with the symptoms of severe jaundice due to systemic disease.

It can have presence of greater amount of bile pigments in the bloodstream while the teeth are forming may discolor the teeth yellow or shades of yellow-green.

Furthermore, if a pregnant woman, use tetracycline while the teeth are forming or to the child postnatal, those teeth being formed will be discolored.

How to eliminate

To eliminate tooth stains or improve the color, the intervention of a professional is important. Never think, you can solve that yourself. Toothpaste does not work well on rough surfaces.

Certain people have tried at the end they have traumatized the gums and have caused receding gum, abrasion or traumatic gingivitis.

So, we encourage you to see dentist who takes care of you and gives advices of home care to prevent tooth stains.