Teeth Whitening and Dental Care: Dental Health through Dental Hygiene

Even my dental health was not less good than Eva's.

In my dental care, dental hygiene and teeth whitening had always been my first concern. I brushed my teeth as many times as I took something into my mouth even to munch a little though it was without a toothpaste that I was using my brush on my teeth. The main purpose was to drive away every single piece of food that might have got stuck in between the teeth, which if stayed there would certainly tend to stagnate and invite germs to attack the denture.

Dental Care through Dental Hygiene

Toothpaste doesn't do much good to the teeth, it's only the brush that does. You can say that the toothbrush is the need whereas the toothpaste is a luxury on it.

I am just joking! I use toothpaste on my brush twice a day, once in the early morning and another at late night before going to the bed. The rest of the times whenever I brush it is without applying a tooth paste on it. Once even a dentist friend told me that the paste was just a redundant thing as far as dental care including dental health and dental hygiene were concerned, and the brush was the real thing that did the job.

Whatever, I made friends with my brush almost 7 times a day (I munched that many times... only!). Health had always been a prime concern of mine.

But my teeth were not as white as Eva's were. Why? Only because I was a smoker, which tended to stain them on their outer surface! So once in a while I went to a dentist for my teeth whitening done, which s/he would do with a rotating machine in her/his hands scratching the stains from over the surface of the teeth one by one by one...

But then this was the dentist I will never be able to forget all through my life. I went to him for getting my teeth whitening done and he made me sit on his dentist's chair. Then he took out his rotating instrument, switched it on and brought it to my first tooth to scratch the first stain off its surface.

Teeth Whitening

But before his machine would touch my tooth, he stopped his hand where it was. Then he switched off his instrument and said - "Shall I give you a humble piece of advice?"

"Yes, what?" - I asked.

"Don't get your scratching done." - he caringly said.

"Why?" I asked again.

"You have an excellent denture and a commendable dental health. Don't let it go weak by getting your stains scratched on your teeth. Just take your dental care by keeping your dental hygiene right and these stains will do no harm to it. They are only a cosmetic thing and not a health problem at all. And even if I scratch your stains today or else do it with the help of some other teeth whitening kit, they will come back there within no time spoiling your teeth whitening in the hands of cigarettes you smoke, which you are not going to leave I suppose." - he was smiling as he was saying all this to me.

Another Whitening System

"I am impressed... but are you an enemy of your own profession? I am your customer after all and you would have earned from me!" - I was awe-stricken by what he had said to me not bothering for the money he would have earned from me.

"You are more my client than my customer and your welfare comes before my income." - he gave an innocent smile to me again.

I thanked him and came out of his clinic never to visit another in future.

I am 57 today and never needed going to a dentist for any problem in my teeth till date!