Do really dark e-juices stain your teeth?

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razorxwire

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Good questions. The reason I regularly peruse the New Members forum. This being one of them, I'll have to chime in. I can't see that they would. I've only been vaping a little while, but almost all of the juice I use are colored, mainly red. So if they do stain and it just takes longer to notice, in a year or so I'll have red teeth. Hmm...
 

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it just seems like it makes sense that it would ... this one coffee flavored one i have is soooooooo black .. i swear you'd think it was crude oil ... it turns my cartos the darkest brown ... its just scary to look at .. i want to use it so i don't waste the juice and it tastes really good .. but i wonder if its worth it if it does stain .. plus i just had a LOT of dental work and surgery . and since i quit smoking in november .. my teeth look sooo much better ..
 

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Pretty sure it doesn't. I can't say for sure, but darker juices almost always clog cartos and destroy atties quicker. Theres a reason for that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the darker juices have a lot more particulate matter in them, most of which won't vaporize, so you still more or less get the flavor from it but at the same time most of it just burns onto the coil, or potentially stays in the wicking/filler. I could be completely wrong, but since most darker juice does have a tendency to stick in an atty longer and shorten carto life, it'd make sense.

Now that I think about it, two more reasons why I doubt dark e-juice stains your teeth.

One: The condensation in a drip tip is normally clear, even from dark juices. Either A. The heavier, darker particulates don't condensate that easily or B. They just aren't really in the vapor at all, previous point.

Two: Smokers get stains due to tar and such. Tar is NOT water soluble, as far as I know. Even with oil-based flavors, PGA has to be used to MAKE them water soluble, so even if the vapor could stain your teeth, I'd think it would wash off fairly easily. Some may say that coffee is, of course, water soluble, and still stains teeth, but if you think about it, thats a very dark liquid completely immersing your teeth whenever you happen to drink it.

When I first started vaping, I did something kinda silly. I filled a little plastic souffle cup with cotton balls, poked two holes in it, and blew vapor through it every hour or so for a few days. I lost interesting as nothing really happened, but that, I suppose, kind-of proves my point in a 2nd grade science fair kind of way.
 
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wow . that's interesting .. i never thought about that but it kinda makes sense about the particulate matter sorta .. but then again .. if you were to add sugar to one solution and then add less dark particles to another solution .. it would seem like the darker one has more just cuz its dark but the sugary one might actually have more because it dissolves into a lighter looking solution (like comparing lemonade to coffee )..... but is that really true about the darker the juice is .. the faster it will kill your atty/carto? can anyone else confirm this?
 
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When I first started vaping, I did something kinda silly. I filled a little plastic souffle cup with cotton balls, poked two holes in it, and blew vapor through it every hour or so for a few days. I lost interesting as nothing really happened, but that, I suppose, kind-of proves my point in a 2nd grade science fair kind of way.

lol

Were you planning to eventually squeeze the cotton to recycle your second-hand vapor and refill your cartos? :p
 

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it just seems like it makes sense that it would ... this one coffee flavored one i have is soooooooo black .. i swear you'd think it was crude oil ... it turns my cartos the darkest brown ... its just scary to look at .. i want to use it so i don't waste the juice and it tastes really good .. but i wonder if its worth it if it does stain .. plus i just had a LOT of dental work and surgery . and since i quit smoking in november .. my teeth look sooo much better ..

I guess you never know. But chocolote doesn't turn your teeth brown. If it did I would have mud mouth teeth.lol But seriously, the coloring is coming from the food grade flavorings. Which typically makes up no more than 20% of the juice. I would think in most cases if brushing daily, no stains would be observed. Can't say never though, there are so many flavors and vendors out there.

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