This time of year I find myself reflecting on a lot of different things. That is because the holidays are over and now that all the extra time spent with family and friends is mostly over I have some extra time on my hands. It is also a time to go over all the conversations that have been had with the rest of my circle and it allows me to look at my life and maybe even take their advice. One topic that came up this year was obviously our health with covid-19. But surprisingly there are a lot of different parts of health that were discussed and we all got on the topic of our dental health and bright teeth. A lot of stories got passed along and some of them were from my own past.
I remember my first attempt at wanting to get brighter teeth. My sister had actually decided that she wanted amazing white teeth for a prom. I was a few years younger, but to be honest it got me thinking about having white teeth as well. What we did was decide to split the cost of some tooth whitening strips. This was the best idea we thought we had ever come up with and for two weeks we spent each night with these nasty gell-like strips on our teeth. It was fun because we were family and we ended up reading or playing on the computer to pass the 15 minutes of not licking or touching our teeth. With the strips back then it was actually pretty hard to do and not to get them to move. But day after day our teeth slowly got bright white. It was a pretty cool experience, but we also felt some differences between us. I found out that my teeth were much more sensitive than my sisters. In fact, my teeth began to hurt a lot doing these strips and I was more than happy to see it all be done with. But with the pain, I still had super bright and white teeth.
Now that I look back I know I was actually probably damaging my teeth and that something was wrong. So instead of ever doing that again I now was able to talk about the special toothpaste I use to brighten my teeth without the sensitivity. This for me was only brought to my attention because of my incredible wife. What I do now is use charcoal toothpaste. It is an amazing product that is a little gross but works well without the side effects of strains up toothaches. Yes, sensitivity is strained up toothaches and pain. It is just stated in a nice way. But what I found is that using this toothpaste I could keep my teeth nice a white by keeping up with brushing with the special paste once a day.
But the charcoal toothpaste does have some downfalls and that it is truly made of charcoal. It really is black and has some big staining issues if you spit it in an area that is not important. There are black spots all over the sink even if you are not spitting paste itself. It is just an after product of the whole process. But it does work well, so give it a try.
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