Avoiding Staining While Wearing Braces

Getting your braces off should be a joyous occasion where your brand-new smile is revealed to you. However, it can turn sour if it reveals uneven staining. At Maiden Lane Dental in New York, NY, we offer teeth whitening, but we also want our patients who wear braces to be aware of how to avoid uneven staining while wearing them.

 

Dental  Hygiene

The most important part of keeping stains away is keeping a clean mouth. Brush and floss as your dentist instructs. It helps to brush after every meal and do not skip flossing, it is just as important for keeping a while smile.

 

Helpful Supplies

Interdental cleaners will help you brush around your brackets underneath your wires. While a normal toothbrush often cannot fit under the wires, this tiny tree-shaped brush can. Floss with a threader attached or purchasing floss threaders will help speed up your flossing process.

 

Stay Away from Dark Foods and Drinks

Dark foods and drinks are able to stain teeth if they are consumed frequently. Stain-causing foods can stain teeth slowly over time and since you will most likely be wearing braces for at least a year, you will want to make sure you are minimizing contact with these types of foods. Examples are tea, cola, ketchup, and beets. Try to drink dark liquids through a straw, limit the amount of dark foods and liquids you are consuming, and rinse your mouth after consumption.

 

After you have your braces taken off, we can recommend any needed whitening procedures; however, it is nice to know how to avoid the staining. To schedule an appointment at Maiden Lane Dental here in our New York, NY office, call us at (212) 509-4585 or visit our website, www.maidenlanedental.com. 

Custom Teeth Whitening Trays at Maiden Lane Dental

For bright and brilliant teeth, there is no better way to whiten than to kick off the process with a professional system. Here at Maiden Lane Dental in New York, NY, we offer a completely customized teeth whitening system for our patients looking to whiten their smile.

At Maiden Lane Dental, we offer a customized take-home tray whitening system. We take impressions of your teeth to shape the trays into an exact fit for your teeth. Imagine them looking like Invisalign trays. They are designed to hit every surface of your smile for the perfect whitening process. The whitening gel is placed into the trays and worn for a short period of time over duration of a few days. Depending on your lifestyle, you can make them work during the day or overnight.  

The whitening gel creates a chemical reaction to lift stains from our daily habits. When the chemicals break the carbon bonds that hold in stained color, the teeth start to lighten. Our customized whitening system often produces results four to eight shades whiter.

White teeth are a popular desire for many of our patients. To schedule a consultation with us in New York, NY to see if our customized whitening trays will work well for you, call us at (212) 509-4585 or visit the Maiden Lane Dental website, www.maidenlanedental.com. 

KöR Whitening with Dr. Becker at Maiden Lane Dental

The KöR Whitening Deep Bleaching™ System is now at Maiden Lane Dental.  This cutting-edge whitening system is different from other whitening gels because it enables your teeth to absorb oxygen.  This approach to teeth whitening is less harsh than other gels, which is good news for anyone that has experienced the pain and sensitivity associated with older whitening products.  KöR actually produces low to no sensitivity. Studies found that the few patients that felt some sensitivity only felt 10% of the sensitivity they’d felt from other whitening gels, making this system the most comfortable whitening system available.

The process is easy, too.  First, Dr. Becker will take impressions of your teeth in order to create your own, unique KöR Whitening Trays.  These trays are comfortable not only because they are ultra-thin, but because the design locks in the bleach, which prevents the gel from leaking from the tray.  Simply wear the trays at night while you sleep for two weeks to reveal your whitest smile.

The result will be a smile that is a natural shade of white.  KöR offers results up to sixteen shades whiter with no worry of relapsing back to a darker shade.  This is true for coffee or red-wine drinker, too.  The trays are yours to keep for easy, periodic home maintenance, allowing your results to be permanent.

Call Dr. Becker at Maiden Lane Dental today.

NYC Dentist for Cosmetic Dentistry

It's no surprise that the number one feature people notice most it your smile.  It says a lot about who you are, the level to which you care for yourself, and above all else, the amount of confidence you have.   Our smile is key to expressing our feelings to those around us.  If we walk into a room with a big grin on our face, others are immediately relaxed and happy to hear what’s on our mind.  Alternatively, if we walk into a room keeping our pearly whites hidden, then we become either a source of negative interest or are unnoticed altogether.  So, how do you enter a room?

If you shy away from showing your smile, then you may consider cosmetic dentistry with your NYC dentist.  Cosmetic Dentistry has come a long way in the last twenty years, and is more affordable than you think.  Whether you are interested in teeth whitening, vaneers, natural tooth colored filling, or dental implants, your Financial District dentist, Dr. Lloyd Becker can give you the smile you have always dreamed of at Maiden Lane Dental.