Is it healthy to use baking soda to whiten teeth? (read on and answer please!)

Question

1. is it healthy to use baking soda to whiten teeth?

2. how do you even use baking soda to whiten teeth? (i.e. mixed with toothpaste, or what?)

3. how often do you have to do it?

4. how many times will you have to do it before you see results?

thanks in advance, i'll choose best answer

Answer 1

here's a site http://www.wikihow.com/Whiten-Teeth-With...

I would ask your dentist. there are also tooth pastes with baking soda in them to whiten

Answer 2

yes it's healthy.  What do you think they brushed their teeth with back in the old days?  Baking soda and peroxide!  Works wonders.  

Answer 3

Baking soda is fine.  Check around for toothpastes than contain baking soda.  There's a lot of them around.  Health food stores might have them or markets like Whole Foods might have them.

If you want to use baking soda by itself.  Just put a tiny bit in the palm of your hand and dip and wet toothbrush in is, then brush.  It will taste salty.  Rinse your mouth.  Toothpaste with baking soda is a little easier in the taste department because it will have some kind of mint flavor which will mask the taste of the baking soda.