Tooth Stains | Types of Tooth Stains | Causes | Prevention | Dr Malvika Jain Dental Clinic

Tooth Staining is a dental problem in which the colour of our teeth turns to yellow or brown. This is one of the major problems nowadays because of our daily lifestyle. Tooth staining is caused by a compound which name is chromogens which offer certain drinks and foods their hard colour, and which can stain our teeth.

Drinks and Foods containing a substance which is known as tannin and it also make your teeth much more vulnerable to staining.

Types of Teeth Stains

There are three types of teeth stains:

• Extrinsic Tooth Stains: An extrinsic tooth stains are those tooth stains in which the outer part of the tooth stained. Superficial extrinsic teeth stains are small and can be extracted by brushing and prophylactic dental cleaning. Stubborn extrinsic stains can be extracted but it includes more efforts like teeth whitening. The major cause of extrinsic tooth stains is regular drinking of tea and coffee, wine and cola drinks and consumption of tobacco products. We can control the external tooth stain by daily brushing the teeth with whitening toothpaste.
  
• Intrinsic Tooth Stains:  An Intrinsic Tooth Stains are those tooth stains in which the inner part of the tooth stained or we can say that change to yellow and darken in colour. This stain happens when stain-causing particles work across the exterior of the tooth and gather within the tooth enamel.  The major cause of intrinsic tooth stains are the large use of fluoride during early childhood, maybe your mother used tetracycline antibiotics during pregnancy, any injury in your permanent teeth and internal bleeding discoloured the tooth. An intrinsic tooth stain is difficult to remove as compared to external stains, but it can be done. An intrinsic tooth stain needs bleaching using dentist or at-home chemical teeth whitening products.
  
• Age-Related Tooth Stains are the combinations of both the intrinsic and extrinsic tooth stains. Because of the increasing age, the teeth naturally turn to yellows over time. The enamel of the teeth that hold teeth gets thinner slowly with ages, which permit the dentin to show through. Smoking and Foods also can stain your tooth because of age, mostly when the pulp has been harmed.

Symptoms of Tooth Stains

It is not good for a tooth to change colour from a whitish to yellow or brown. In a few cases, a small spot may appear like grey or brown. After a few times, this brown spot change to black.

Causes of Tooth Staining

There are several causes of teeth staining:

• Tobacco Products: If you do smoking or chewing tobacco products.
• Genetics Problem: Some people have a natural problem like as thicker enamel than others.
• Environment: If you are taking a fluoride-containing product from environment source like as naturally high fluoride levels in water or from excessive use like as fluoride toothpaste, fluoride supplements, fluoride applications etc can cause teeth discolouration.
• Advancing age: As the age of the person increase the chances of tooth discolouration automatically increase because of thinner enamel.
•  Dental Products: Some of the dental material used in dentistry like amalgam restorations, mainly silver sulfide carrying materials, can turn your teeth grey-black.
• Medications: Some of the medicine like antibiotics tetracycline and doxycycline are known to discolour teeth when you give this medicine to those children whose teeth are still developing.
• Disease: So many dental problems like as head and neck radiation and chemotherapy can cause tooth discolouration.
• Poor Dental Hygiene: Insufficient brushing and flossing with an antiseptic mouthwash to remove plaque and stain making a substance like coffee and tobacco can be a major reason for tooth discolouration.
• Foods/Drinks: Teas, Wines, Coffee and certain fruits and vegetables can discolour your teeth.

 How to Remove Stains on Teeth

There are two types of Tooth Staining like as:

• In-office Treatment: In this process, you have to visit the dental clinic for teeth whitening. A dentist first examines your teeth and then starts the process of teeth whitening. Remarkable colour change in a short period of time is the major advantage of in-office whitening. In this treatment, a dentist applied a peroxide gel on your teeth for 15 to 20 minutes.
• At-home Treatment: You can do this process from home. In this process, you have to buy teeth whitening kit from the pharmacy or dental clinic through which you can whiten your teeth easily. But this is a slow process and this process takes more than one month or some time more.

Prevention of Tooth Staining

• Daily brush your teeth with fluoride-based toothpaste for two minutes daily.
• At least floss one a day.
• Daily use fluoride-based mouthwash. But, don’t use this mouthwash for children below 6.
• Don’t consume alcohol and tobacco products.
• Daily do dental cleanings.
• Daily rinse the mouth with water or brush the teeth after eating, generally when you are eating sugar related products like chocolate.
• Avoid some products like a coffee and tea, red wine and dark liquors, dark fruits juices, citrus fruits and juices, dark sauces like tomato sauce or soy sauce.

Products help to prevent tooth staining

• Apples and vegetables
• Foods rich in certain antioxidants like carrots, ginger and garlic.
• Nuts
• Fermented yoghurts and cheeses

     I hope you enjoy this blog on Teeth Staining. If you are facing tooth staining problem for a long time and looking for the best dentist in Vasundhara Ghaziabad then visit our clinic. Our dental clinic in Vasundhara Ghaziabad is one of the best clinics of Delhi NCR.