White teeth is increasingly becoming a socially important issue for many patients. I would firstly like to comment that unfortunately our perception of normal, healthy, white teeth has been blurred by what we see in the media. The teeth of celebrities, models and other people who appear in the media are often not teeth but porcelain veneers or caps that have been made in an ultrawhite colour. Generally speaking, it is abnormal and unnatural for the colour of your teeth to be whiter than the whites of your eyes.
I grind my teeth at night - should I be worried?
Abnormal tooth grinding and clenching is called bruxism. There are many theories as to why people grind their teeth but even the experts aren’t so sure yet. It has been associated with stress and anxiety but there is also a school of thought that it is a mechanism used in childhood to help loosen baby/milk teeth that grownups haven’t grown out of.