[ SECRET POST #4912 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4912 ⌋

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Comments

[(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?