
Beverage Stains on Tooth Enamel
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Which drink stains teeth the most — coffee, tea, grape juice, red wine, or cola? You clean five teeth to the same starting color. Then you soak each tooth in a different beverage for three minutes.
After removing the teeth, you compare the stains and rank them from darkest to lightest. The results may change how you think about your favorite drink.
Hypothesis
The hypothesis is that coffee will leave the most stains on the teeth.
Method & Materials
You will brush the collected teeth to make sure they all have the same color, put a tooth in each cup of beverage, wait three minutes, compare the stains on the teeth, and rank them according to the degree of staining.
You will need five collected baby teeth, one cup of coffee, one cup of tea, one cup of grape juice, one cup of Coca-Cola, one toothbrush and one tube of toothpaste, one sheet of paper, one black marker, and one stopwatch.
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See what’s includedResults
The results showed that grape juice caused the most staining, while tea had the least staining effect on the teeth.
Why do this project?
This science project is interesting because it shows us which beverages can cause the most staining on our teeth.
Also Consider
Experiment variations include testing different types of beverages like milk and different sodas.
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