Great Smile: Improve The Look of Your Teeth With These Tips
The health of your teeth and the look of your smile is an underappreciated part of one’s attractiveness. Everything is better with a smile: first impressions, meetings, coffees, fun times, boring times… You get it, when you smile the world smiles back at you. In fact, scientists have studied how teeth play a role in finding someone attractive, with multiple studies showing that teeth are used as a way to assess someone’s overall health and genetic quality. Ha! How about that.
Science aside, having good teeth just generally makes people feel more confident and look more put together. Who hasn’t had the unfortunate incident of putting together a cute outfit and swipe on a luscious shade of lipstick, only to see yellowed, crooked teeth in the mirror?
Because good style is often associated with having a good smile, here are a few tips to help make our teeth look a little bit better:
Make flossing a habit.
There’s not debate that brushing one’s teeth is, and should be, an integral part of one’s daily oral hygiene routine. But what a lot of people often do not know is that flossing should also be a part of that daily routine. While brushing your teeth helps remove a good amount of plaque, flossing can actually help make your teeth look brighter and your gums look healthier.
Flossing removes plaque and food particles that are stuck between the teeth, which are normally places that brushing or gargling alcohol free mouthwash can’t effectively clean out. This prevents plaque from building up and turning into tartar, which can then lead to a whole lot of trips to the dentist for things like gingivitis.
Get your smile fixed.
Speaking of trips to the dentist, we all know that not everyone is born with a smile worthy of a Hollywood career. Whether it’s through an unfortunate case of genetics or something random but serious like face-planting on concrete earlier in your life, we could all use the help of a professional to fix things up.
Dentists do more than just pull teeth out or secretly judge people for not taking better care of their teeth, they can also help correct any problems with one’s chompers. While people are very familiar with the concept of braces, dentists are also able to replace missing teeth through the magic of dental implants. Through all on 4 dental implants, prosthodontists can replace entire rows of teeth and restore that kilowatt smile that’s been missing for a while.
Brighten your smile.
Not all white teeth are the picture of health, and not all yellow teeth indicate poor oral hygiene. But while this may be the case, having whiter teeth is generally regarded as a more attractive and fashionable dental choice. Consider giving your chompers a dazzling white smile using at home whitening kits. At home whitening kits vary a lot; some of them are good only for surface stains, while some are reported to remove even deep seated stains on the tooth.
A lot of at home whitening kits usually use bleaching agents that are harsh and abrasive. But some teeth whitening products like the Active Wow Teeth Whitening Charcoal Powder use natural ingredients like coconut-derived activated charcoal, bentonite clay and orange seed oil to naturally whiten teeth. The whitening process for these non-chemical alternatives does take longer, but there’s less chance of developing sensitive teeth and gums afterward.
xoxo. D.
