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Tips on Keeping 25-35 Year Old Teeth Healthy and White

At this point in your life, your teeth are veterans of quite a bit of action. As a kid, your permanent teeth grew in and you may have gone through braces, and cavity fillings due to all those sugary snacks you just couldn’t resist. Then, when you went off to college, you may have pulled all-nighters studying hard and drinking large amounts of soda or coffee to stay awake, which stained your teeth. To complement the long study sessions, you may have rewarded yourself with the requisite amount of partying – complete with sugary alcoholic beverages that further damaged your tooth health and eroded your enamel. So now, after the college years, you’re settling down into a career and family. What does that mean for your overall tooth health?

Your life may be busier now, with a wedding, increased job stress, and maybe even a kid or two, but your tooth health should be more or less stable. These are the maintenance years, after you’ve had your tonsils out, had wisdom teeth removed, and taken the braces off. There should be no major dental surgeries or tooth health issues between your late 20s and early 30s. In fact, one of the biggest problems is that people in this age group tend to give too much attention to tooth health and they brush too hard. This can lead to sensitive teeth and twinges of pain when you eat or drink something particularly hot or cold. What happens is that the middle layer of the tooth, known as dentin, may have become exposed due to vigorous brushing and decay of the protective coating of enamel on the tooth’s surface. One easy way to reduce sensitivity is to switch to a soft-bristled tooth brush and stop scrubbing the teeth like you’re scrubbing a dirty floor. This way, you can keep your teeth healthy and white without scouring away tooth enamel.

Another common problem is keeping your teeth healthy and white after years of eating and drinking substances that can discolor your teeth. In the rush to keep up with the busy lifestyle you’ve created for yourself, you may find that you’re consuming great quantities of coffee, tea, soda, and sports drinks. Energy drinks may have color additives that stain your teeth, in addition to the acid content of ones that feature citric acid as an ingredient. While you’re running the marathon that is your life, try finishing that cup of coffee or tea in less than 15 minutes, too, instead of lingering over it – you’ll find that your teeth are less stained. Soda, then, is not only a source of empty calories; it has an extremely high sugar content. Considered to be one of the most formidable enemies of good oral hygiene, soda not only contributes to tooth decay with its high sugar content, but dark-colored colas stain your teeth just like coffee or tea.

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