Teeth Whitening
A pretty shiny smile. That’s what we want. With yellow teeth, you’ll look unhealthy and even a bit creepy. A white toothpaste smile will make the difference! How can you achieve this?
You can pay a lot of money for white teeth at the dentist. But you also can try to do it yourself with products that you just can find at the supermarket In America they even whiten their teeth with hydrogen peroxide, as the photo above shows. Hydrogen peroxide is also used to bleach your hair and burns you if it touches your skin. That's not what you want to use on your teeth… Silly Americans.
Not only Americans experiment with teeth whitening. In a lot of other countries the teeth are an important feature and they have to shine.
In Thailand they rub their teeth with the white side of an orange peel. For this method you can use other fruits as well, like strawberry or apple. Using white for white teeth sounds very logical. But using black for white teeth, like they do in Iran, sounds strange. They think that they can whiten their teeth by rubbing it in with burned bread. And it seems to work. In India they brush their teeth with the yellow herb turmeric which also helps to get a white smile.
Not all of these methods are very good for your teeth. Maybe it looks better, whiter and healthier, most of the time it will damage your teeth. If that happens, there is no way back. So beware!
