INTENSIVE SWIMMING - CAN IT AFFECT YOUR PATIENTS SMILES

Athletes who swim intensively, such as those who swim laps more than s ix hours a week, may develop unusual yellowish brown or dark brown sta ins on their teeth. The authors hypothesize that long-term contact of the teeth with swimming pool water, as well as the mixture of oral flu ids with swimming pool water, leads to the formation of these deposits . The authors report two cases of development of such stains.