Bleachorexia is an unhealthy obsession with whitening one\u2019s teeth. Unfortunately, this term is not unheard of today. Whitening your teeth too often can be really bad for your dental health, especially if you aren\u2019t seeing a cosmetic dentist in Westchester. Teeth whitening has become big business.<\/p>\n
Americans spend billions on teeth whitening products annually, and in dentists\u2019 offices, bleaching is the most requested procedure among patients aged 40 to 60, according to a survey conducted by the ADA. Teeth whitening toothpaste is now more popular than any other kind.<\/p>\n
\u201c In a 2002 University of Southern California School of Dentistry survey of 100 people, 50% experienced mild to moderate sensitivity after using an over-the-counter-strength whitening gel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dentists all around the world are working hard to identify who makes a good candidate for teeth whitening and who should skip the procedure. The answers are becoming more clear but researchers are also uncovering what may be the true hazard of whitening- overuse of chemicals inside the whitening products.<\/p>\n
Source: www.scarsdaledentistry.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bleachorexia is an unhealthy obsession with whitening one\u2019s teeth. Unfortunately, this term is not unheard of today. Whitening your teeth too often can be really bad for your dental health, especially if you aren\u2019t seeing a cosmetic dentist in Westchester. Teeth whitening has become big business. Americans spend billions on teeth whitening products annually, and in dentists\u2019 offices, bleaching is the most requested procedure among patients aged 40 to 60, according to a survey conducted by the ADA. Teeth whitening toothpaste is now more popular than any other kind. \u201c In a 2002 University of Southern California School of Dentistry survey of 100 people, 50% experienced mild to moderate sensitivity after using an over-the-counter-strength whitening gel.\u201d Dentists all around the world are working hard to identify who makes a good candidate for teeth whitening and who should skip the procedure. The answers are becoming more clear but researchers are also uncovering what may be the true hazard of whitening- overuse of chemicals inside the whitening products. Source: www.scarsdaledentistry.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10,11,12,13],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dentistry","tag-face","tag-floss","tag-teeth","tag-tooth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getdigitaltraffic.com\/pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}