[ SECRET POST #4912 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4912 ⌋

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[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/MOtekrj.png

[(Anonymous)]

I get this. My top teeth are a little crooked and two of them kinda look like vampire fangs, so I always feel a little self-conscious when I smile and it’s too expensive for me to fix them.

[tabaqui]

Aw, I've always thought that people who had really pointy canines looked cool.

[(Anonymous)]

:D

[(Anonymous)]

Same here!

My canines are slightly pointy (thought not enough for my tastes) and grew in wrong so they're too high up in my mouth and don't give up the look I want </3 So, long live pointy vampire fangs! (Though of course if you dislike them, I hope you can eventually get them taken care of. Otherwise, I hope you eventually embrace them &hearts; )

[(Anonymous)]

I had really pointy teeth when I was younger and I absolutely loved them... but I literally had that dentist from hell who took out his divorce or loss of his wife out on his patients it seemed. I thought I was going in to get a cavity filled when I was like twelve and he ending up grinding all my teeth down as well... apparently because they allowed for a higher chance of plaque buildup. I was so mad, (still am kinda) but I live in Canada and luckily the rest of the dental cost was covered by my mothers work plan at the time so, oh well, I guess?

Basically! Live you're pointy toothed self out!!

[sabotabby]

A lot of UK actors don't have perfect teeth. It makes everything feel more grounded.

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh, I get weirded out whenever I see glowing white rows of teeth (straight or no). It just looks so unnatural to me.

[(Anonymous)]

The glowing white is creepy, but perfectly straight, identical veneers is the worst of all. I work with a lot of old people, and many of them, when they get dentures, get the perfect glowing white square teeth version, so celeb teeth like that always look super fake.

[tabaqui]

THIS. The 'straight across the bottom' teeth are fucking weird. Nobody naturally has teeth like that. Just...fucking odd.

[philstar22]

I was forced to get veneers on my upper front teeth at one point as a teenager. I hate them honestly, but no way to get rid of them now.

[(Anonymous)]

They stayed on? Gosh, mine fell off after two years. Gotta bridge/Maryland splint now

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you. But I like to think my crooked teeth and slightly misaligned jaw give me character! Veneers? Not here!

And honestly, just remeber that half of them either had orthodontic treatment as kids, whitening treatments (your teeth can't stay white forever), and a WHOLE lot of them have veneers. So you're not even seeing their real teeth.

[greghousesgf]

Not trying to be mean here but even when he was popular I always thought there was something a bit uncanny valley-ish about Erik Estrada's teeth

[(Anonymous)]

The perfect American teeth always look like false teeth to me.

Really obvious false teeth.

It's clear they aren't real. Either the actors had hardcore braces to straighten them in their teens and harsh whitening treatments to achieve that unnatural whiteness, or they're veneers or implants.

Nobody has absolutely perfect, pearly white teeth naturally. It's total bollocks.

It's just unnecessary treatment.

So long as they aren't black, broken, hurting you and allow you to eat, they're fine, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I actually did, no braces even, at least until my wisdom teeth came in, and I took too long getting them removed so there's a slight crook on my front bottom teeth, but nothing major. I took very good care of them growing up and still do now, so while they aren't blindingly white, they're still pretty damn pearly. I had basically the perfect set of teeth naturally, which is actually hilarious since I bashed my two front teeth in when I was a child and they stayed permanently bruised to the point the dentist thought the next set would come in discoloured as well..

[(Anonymous)]

People who live in pre-industrial societies often do have straight, white teeth - very little sugar, no tobacco and chewing a lot more! The reason so many people from developed countries have to have braces or have teeth out is that we don't develop our jaws by constantly chewing tough things as children, so our normal amount of teeth are crammed into a narrower jaw. Of course, the kids who are eating the extremely tough, unprocessed food have a much higher chance of not getting enough nutrition and losing teeth (or starving) that way, but straight teeth are now rare for a reason.

[(Anonymous)]

It's actually not sugar that causes most of the issues with tooth rot. It's ... basically bread.

Societies without such a high focus on bread (or similar clingy carby food) don't tend to get as many of the rotting or cavity issues. Carbohydrate rich food clings to the teeth in a way that sugar doesn't causing the bulk of the issues. Sugar tends to get washed away pretty quickly. Bread... sticks to the gumline (leading to wear there and, as such, buccal fillings), between the teeth causing more serious cavities and in the crevices in the surfaces of the teeth.

The reason people in pre-industrial societies have better teeth is partially due to that and partially due to the racial differences in which countries/continents are considered pre- and post-industrial. White and East Asian people *tend* to have naturally narrower jaws leading to cramming, particularly in Europeans. A lot of people of African origin have great teeth even in the post-industrial west due to this, naturally wider tooth spacings and a natural overbite (I swear, the two Somalian girls I went to school with had the best teeth I have ever seen and they were born and raised in central England). Obviously not all, but on average they're better than ours. The colour aspect is probably the same across the board in the West.

People of European origin (white Americans included) tend to have worse natural teeth (obviously not all!) regardless. It's very often racial and any racist white supremacist asshole who says that white people are racially superior to black people doesn't work in the dental industry. Facial structures are different between what is typical of race and it affects the jaw heavily and affects white people more negatively on average. Mine're so close together I can't floss between most of them, I am of Irish origin.

That's the thing about the whole US/UK 'hurr hurr people in the UK have bad teeth hurr hurr' joke.

We actually don't. We have on average better dentistry and fewer cavities and tooth loss in children than the US. The difference is, the US pushes cosmetic dentistry way harder than we do here. Obviously Americans often have much better teeth -- they're straightened and whitened. We don't place such a focus on that in the UK or in the wider Europe either. So long as they're healthy (and white and straight does not indicate healthy, it just indicates social acceptability re: US standards such a much higher proportion of Americans have crowns/veneers) we don't go mad with braces and such unless there's a real need, a parent pushes it for their kid before free NHS dentistry wears off at 18 or an adult is desperate for that American straight teeth thing.

Don't get me wrong -- I have had two back teeth pulled due to horizontally impacted wisdom teeth smashing them to bits when they tried to come through and my teeth aren't military graveyard straight. If I had the money to get them all pulled and replaced with implants I sure as shit would, but it's never so much as a focus as it seems to be in America.

Can you tell I have been routinely bored to death about teeth by a dentist relative?

[tabaqui]

This is easy to say, and you feel what you feel, but so long as your teeth are clean and everything works, very few people are going to notice your teeth.

Sure, someone with a lot of gaps or clearly stained/rotting teeth is gonna get side eyed, but just kinda crooked? Bunny teeth? 'Fangs'? Nobody really cares.

[(Anonymous)]

In Japan people purposefully got braces to crook their teeth because it's cute.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really self conscious about my teeth because of not being able to get some dental issues taken care of over the past couple years (over the last year I have, but my teeth are still kinda freaky), so I feel you. FWIW, it's not something I ever dislike about other people's appearances no matter how awkward I feel about my own teeth, and I think distinctive looking teeth are actually really cute.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this. My teeth are a bit yellow (like the undertone of my skin is yellow and it almost matches my teeth level) so I always feel gross when I smile and have my teeth showing compared to the blue white glow celebs have and that people are getting becoming the norm. I have to remind myself that dentin is normally yellow and that bleaching your teeth that way is bad for the enamel but even then it’s hard not to feel bad. Especially when wearing lipstick and makes the teeth look even dirtier.

And the worst part is I tell myself it’s my own fault for my depression making me neglect my oral health care so my teeth look like that as a result.

[(Anonymous)]

If lipstick makes you feel worse about yourself, don't use it? It's not like it's obligatory.

[(Anonymous)]

da- i always wonder about comments like this. like did you, genuinely, in your heart, convince yourself that "not wearing lipstick" is something that did not occur to this person? do you believe that they actually think it is "obligatory"? it's such a fascinating way of thinking, to be convinced that this very obvious and simple statement never crossed their mind.

[(Anonymous)]

da - I always wonder about comments like this. Why is it a bad thing to point out that there's an easy solution to something, especially a non-existent problem? It such a fascinating way of thinking, to be convinced that options other than A should never be said aloud.