Elaine Porter Facebook ad: “Read this if you have yellow teeth”

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I have been to the dentist every six months for forty years.Not almost every year. Every six months. Twice a year. Without fail. I floss every night. I have been flossing every night since 1986. Electric toothbrush, replaced every three months. Two minutes, correct angle, twice daily. I gave up red wine at dinner. Not entirely, but I rinse with water after every glass. I have a travel toothbrush in my purse. I am, by any measure, the kind of person who takes care of her teeth. And my teeth are yellow. Not grotesquely. But yellow enough. Yellow in photos. Yellow in my daughter's overhead kitchen light. Yellow in the honest bathroom mirror at 7 AM, where I look at them every morning for just a second longer than I need to. It's not embarrassment. I've done nothing to be embarrassed about. It's something more specific. Closer to what you feel when you're accused of something you didn't do and the evidence against you happens to look correct. Last spring, at my granddaughter Lily's birthday party, someone organized a photo of all the women. Me, my daughter Rachel, my daughter-in-law Kate, and Kate's mother Lynn who'd driven three hours and looked effortlessly wonderful. Lynn is sixty-eight. Drinks coffee daily. Goes to the dentist maybe once a year if she can manage it. Lynn's teeth are white. The photos came the next morning. I looked at them for a while. I have been to the dentist every six months for forty years. I mentioned it to my dentist, Dr. Weiss. Nineteen years together. I trust him completely. He looked in my mouth. Sat back. "Elaine. You have genuinely excellent oral hygiene. Some of what you're seeing is enamel thinning it happens with age. The dentin underneath becomes more visible. There's not a great deal we can do about the structural element." "But I've been doing everything right," I said. "You have," he said. "But whitening is a different thing. Professional whitening would help with surface staining, but given your enamel history, I'd expect some sensitivity. And the results may not be as dramatic as you'd hope." May not be as dramatic as I'd hope. Forty years. And that was the answer. I did the professional whitening anyway. $690. Three appointments. The sensitivity was worse than warned three days where cold water and breathing through my mouth sent pain straight to the back of my head. Results: genuine. For four months. By October they were gone. My dentist suggested maintenance treatments every four or five months. At $690 each. I did the math on the drive home. I did not call to schedule. I stopped caring. Or tried to. Told myself it was vanity. Told myself I was sixty-three years old and the degree of my dental diligence was genuinely exceptional and if the outcome was still yellow teeth then I had done what I could and I would live with it. I lasted about four months. Then I was at a retirement party for a colleague professional photographer, the kind of event where photos appear on LinkedIn the next morning and I spent the entire party slightly angled away from the camera, the way I'd learned to do over the last few years. On the drive home I thought: this is my life now. I go to events and position myself away from cameras. At 2:52 in the morning I opened my laptop. I typed: "why do teeth turn yellow even with perfect dental care." Here is what is actually happening. Around menopause, when estrogen starts to drop, your enamel quietly starts to thin. Not because of coffee. Not because of anything you brushed or didn't brush. Because estrogen is part of what keeps enamel dense and when it drops, the enamel gradually loses that density. As it thins, it becomes slightly see-through. And beneath the enamel sits a layer called dentin. Dentin is naturally a warm ivory yellow. The yellower your teeth look, the more dentin is showing through — because the wall in front of it got thinner while you weren't looking. This is why Lynn's teeth are white and mine are yellow. Not because Lynn flosses more. Because Lynn's enamel, for whatever reason of genetics and luck, has thinned less. The yellowing in every photo has nothing to do with forty years of brushing. It was happening in my biology the whole time. My dentist knew about the thinning. He told me about it. He just didn't explain what it meant for whitening. Here's what it meant. Every whitening treatment I'd had used peroxide. And peroxide doesn't only break down stains. It damages the enamel at the same time. For enamel that's already thin, that's why the sensitivity was so severe. Why I couldn't breathe cold air. The peroxide was getting straight through to the nerve through a wall that my own body had already made thinner. And those treatments weren't just failing. They were making the underlying problem worse. The peroxide was leaving my enamel more porous each time, which meant it picked up staining faster after every treatment. I paid $690 to accelerate the damage. Then I found PAP. It whitens completely differently. No peroxide. No damage to the enamel none. It only breaks down the stain molecules. Nothing else gets touched. In clinical studies it actually whitens better than peroxide. And the sensitivity zero. Not reduced. Zero. smilepure also contains a mineral that fills the thinning back in. The literal mineral enamel is made from. So as it whitens, it's also rebuilding what menopause took. The dentin shows through less. Not because the tooth has been bleached. Because the wall is thicker again. My dentist had never mentioned it. Not because he was hiding anything. Because no one is being paid to put it in front of him. I ordered smilepure that night. Day seven: something in the mirror. Subtle enough to almost explain away. Day eleven: my husband Robert mentioned I looked less tired than usual. I knew what he meant. Not tiredness. The look of someone who's managing something. He was noticing I wasn't managing it quite so visibly. Day sixteen: I took a photo just to look. Sent it to Rachel. She called me ten minutes later. "Mom. What did you do?" Week five. Dr. Weiss looked in my mouth and asked what had changed. I told him everything. He listened. Then said something I've thought about since: "The PAP research is solid. I should have mentioned it when we were discussing whitening options." Should have mentioned it. Nineteen years. Multiple whitening conversations. $690 and three days of pain. "I'd like to add this to what I recommend to patients," he said. "Would you mind if I photographed your chart notes?" I didn't mind. Six months later. My teeth look the way they looked at fifty-three. Last month, Lily's first day of kindergarten. Rachel organized the photos same women, same camera. The photographer said: "Everybody smile!" I smiled. Fully. Without deciding to. The photos arrived the next morning. Rachel sent a message: "You look so like yourself, Mom." Like myself. I have been to the dentist every six months for forty years. I did everything right. The system gave me incomplete information. None of this was my fault. I spent three years believing it was. If you're the good patient with yellow teeth you know the specific shame of that. Being assessed as someone who doesn't take care of herself when you take extraordinary care of yourself. What you weren't told: the yellowing wasn't caused by your behavior. And the products that hurt you used chemistry that was wrong for your biology. PAP is different. No damage to the enamel. It rebuilds what menopause took. Zero sensitivity. Try smilepure for 30 days. Full refund, no questions. The only thing you risk is finding out you were right to have given up. You weren't. 👉 https://smilepure.eu/products/teeth-whitening-strips P.S. — Dr. Weiss now recommends PAP-based whitening before professional treatment for patients with sensitivity history. Four patients in the last three months. Two called him to say it was the first whitening product that didn't hurt.

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