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Would you be happier if your teeth were whiter? Have you ever used, do you use, those white strips?
I haven't used the strips, but I have used the little bottles of jumped-up peroxide with a brush. They do tone down the soda stains on my teeth (and would probably work on tea- and/or coffee-stains as well). Still, the only way I'll ever have properly American gleaming white teeth is to drop several hundred dollars on having them bleached by the dentist.

But I don't really want to monkey too much with my teeth; we don't really know what the long-term effects off all this bleaching is. I, like my mother, would really like to keep as many of my teeth for my dotage. This mouth cost my parents a lot of money, and it cost me a lot of pain (8 pulled molars, 2-plus years of braces and several months of retainers).