These days, it is apparently socially unacceptable to have teeth that are not preternaturally white, even if it is just the six front ones that the white strips reach. Are you preoccupied with the whiteness of your teeth, and to what lengths do you go in pursuit of the radioactive smile?
The only thing I do to lighten my teeth is use a whitening toothpaste.
I find overly-white teeth to be off-putting. I have an acquaintance who gets her teeth professionally whitened periodically, and after a while they started to look kind of blue. More like skim milk than anything else. Gross.
Brit - off white teeth due to drinking tea and, you know, eating.
I use whitening tooth paste too and no-one other than a dentist obviously angling for some additional (and expensive) work has suggested I get my teeth bleached.
My front teeth are crowns, all fake ceramics slipped onto my rather poorly cared for stumps.
As they’re only a few years old, and I take care of them a lot better than previously, they’re currently in pretty good nick.
I was just commenting to my GF last night as we watched a commercial for some teeth-whitening product featuring a woman having a “special day” but was embarrassed her teeth weren’t spotlight-bright what some poor kid from Africa or Indonesia or wherever would think if he/she were to view that commercial.
“What? Your biggest problem in life is your perfectly straight and healthy teeth aren’t gleaming white? You’re a fucking asshole!”
That said, I couldn’t care less about my socially unacceptable yellow teeth. I like coffee and cigarettes and tea, and I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about it.
Off white or darker. Thanks mom for taking tetracycline while you were pregnant. In addition I’ve got weak enamel so whitening of any sort is not recommended.
Curse you whitening industry for leaving me behind!
They’re off-white, because if I whiten them the plaque will show up better. Yea no thanks.
I have very pale skin, and my teeth are off-white. They match well.
In between the cue ball and the popcorn butter. It helps that I’m fairly dark-skinned.
In one of those commercials, I can’t even tell the difference in the before and after!
I’ve used the whitestrips once or twice. The last time was about four years ago, and my teeth are still perfectly acceptable. I think it looks bizarre when people overdo it.
I like red wine and coffee too much to worry about the whiteness of my teeth. But probably cue-ball.
I needed a veneer put on a top front tooth to correct some childhood damage. I did a round of home whitening before the veneer because once I got the veneer, that would be the permanent level of whiteness possible for my teeth (you can’t lighten a veneer). They aren’t like Ross in that episodes of Friends, but I like them!
New dentists I visit are usually amused that I know my shade is B2.
I don’t drink coffee (tea only occasionally, and not brewed strong), or red wine, and I’ve never been a smoker.
With all the other image insecurities I have to manage it will be some time before the whiteness of my teeth becomes a pressing issue.
My teeth aren’t that great. I guess coffee and tea and the 20 years I smoked didn’t help but I’m not wasting money on whitening products. I’ve tried drug store whitening toothpastes but they make little difference.
Obligatory NCIS reference.
Well, I felt obliged.
The last hygienist I went to said my teeth were a perfectly normal colour for teeth, and I stopped worrying about it after that. I don’t want to whiten either, and possibly weaken what is already pretty damned weak enamel.
Not very white. They never have been, and my daughter’s aren’t either - it’s nothing to do with diet. I have a whitening pack in the bathroom that I’m trying to get up the courage to use.
What’s the reference?
I’m not sure what all the gradients of white in the poll mean, but I’d say I have perfectly normal white teeth. Don’t do anything to them- just won the genetic tooth-lotto.
The tetracycline thing is my issue, as well. I’m going to get some work done soon, though. I just wish some makeover show would take pity on me and do it for free.
My teeth are straight and strong and cavity-free. They’re cue-ball off-white, but given the amount of coffee and red wine I drink, they’ll never be whiter than that, and that’s ok. I tried a package of white strips that a friend gave me. (She tried the first strip in the pack and they squicked her out.) Didn’t seem to make any difference, but then, I didn’t give up my coffee or wine during the period I was using them, either.