If you feel that your physical appearance is being blighted by dark-coloured teeth, you could consider having them whitened – or ‘bleached’. Doing this can have many positive effects besides just improving teeth colour, like boosting self-esteem.

Though teeth tend to be brilliantly white during childhood, these teeth often fade in colour throughout adulthood due to teeth mineral structure changes and foodstuff, bacterial pigment and tobacco stains. This is when you should start to consider teeth whitening.

There are many methods of teeth whitening, like bleaching strips, a bleaching pen, bleaching gel, laser bleaching, and natural bleaching. Teeth whitening can be carried out by a dentist or at home, though a dentist’s services tend to be both higher quality and higher cost than home products. It is also worth initially consulting a dentist for advice on which treatment to use, depending on the extent of the teeth discolouration.

You should be able to benefit from the effects of teeth whitening for several years – provided that you don’t persist with habits which tend to decrease teeth whitening, like smoking or consuming dark-coloured liquids, such as black coffee, tea and cheap red wine. Teeth whitening products are often inexpensive, given the benefits , so you have no excuse not to consider them.