ALL ABOUT PROFESSIONAL TEETH WHITENING SERVICES IN LAS VEGAS, NV

The Strip in Las Vegas, NV is four and a half miles packed with beautiful people – high rollers, performers, celebrities, and business magnates – most of them flashing smiles as bright as the casino lights. Yet adults from every walk of life can have equally dazzling smiles with professional teeth whitening services from Dr. Christopher Lim and his team at Hillside Dental.
 

WHY TEETH DISCOLOR

 Enamel that protects teeth feels pearly smooth. It is, however, covered with a network of microscopic tubules. Each tooth has about three miles of these tiny channels that extend from enamel through the dentin layer, all the way to the pulp chamber. Their purpose is to carry sensations – temperature and bite pressure – to nerves at the center of the tooth. This sensory structure helps you avoid damaging your teeth.

Discoloration occurs in three ways:

• Extrinsic – That simply means stains that come from outside forces. When you drink tea, coffee, red wine, or other dark beverages; eat berries; or use tobacco, pigments coat your teeth. While you can brush some surface stains away, you won’t reach molecules that become trapped in tubules. This gives enamel a dingy brown or grayish tinge.

• Intrinsic – This type of discoloration originates inside your tooth. The dentin substructure of teeth is darker than enamel. As we age, enamel gets thinner from wear, allowing yellowish dentin to become visible.

• Medical – These stains are also intrinsic, but not as common as dentin show-through. A single tooth may darken internally from trauma (such as a blow to the face), or from a root canal procedure. In other cases, medications cause dentin to grow dark.