<p>Many movie stars have had cosmetic dental surgery to fix their awful smiles (viz Tom Cruise). However, a number of movie stars seem to resist this trend and it is very endearing. Let me start with two (and other can add more, please!)</p>
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<li> Steve Buscemi</li>
<li> Keira Knightly</li>
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<p>*snaggle-toothed!</p>
<p>Emma Thompson (and a lot of British stars of her vintage) has clearly never had orthodontia. Honestly, that’s kind of part of the appeal, outside of a ridiculous amount of talent. Actors who look like real people, as opposed to polished-and-botoxed-and-sculpted-to-within-an-inch-of-their-lives mannequins, are far preferable IMO.</p>
<p>Real people actually do have orthodontia.
It can be a health issue.</p>
<p>I like the gap between Judi Dench’s front teeth. Keira Knightly and Emma Thompson have fine top teeth which I suspect may well have seen braces. Not everyone thinks teeth need to be as perfect looking as Americans.</p>
<p>My older son’s orthodontist finally fired him because he kept breaking wires after keeping him in braces an extra two years. His teeth looked perfect to me, I don’t know what the orthodontist thought was wrong with them.</p>
<p>Finally! A subject I can sink my “teeth” into! 
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<p>Likely wrong forum though 
More of a “cafe” subject.</p>
<p>Emerald, the opposition to “real people” was not “people with straight teeth” but “as opposed to polished-and-botoxed-and-sculpted-to-within-an-inch-of-their-lives mannequins” in that particular sentence. It was an expansion of the original thought meant to invoke Hollywood’s obsession with perfection. My apologies that that was not clearer.
Ms. Thompson brought up her crooked lower teeth in an interview I saw recently. She’s a very candid woman!</p>
<p>Scarlett Johansson has crooked bottom teeth. It surprised me. Never paid much attention to them. </p>
<p>Orthodontists are perfectionists. The curvature of the teeth must be in the perfect arch. The teeth must align perfectly. The roots much be angled perfectly. I liked that my orthodontist was a perfectionist. I knew that I was getting straight teeth, just what we paid for. I’d be peeved, too, if my patient kept breaking things and getting off of schedule! :D</p>
<p>I might be the only person who doesn’t care for Anna Paquin’s gap smile.</p>
<p>I don’t see how you can change the direction of your roots.
Your teeth also start going back to how they were as soon as you stop wearing your retainer.
I had braces for years, had four teeth pulled, wore two headgear at a time and had a ligament cut.
Still don’t have perfect teeth.
<a href=“http://seattletimes.com/html/health/2002181033_healthbraces16.html”>http://seattletimes.com/html/health/2002181033_healthbraces16.html</a></p>
<p>Our older son nearly got fired by his orthodontist too. Our orthodontist is a perfectionist and is very aggressive re: working on kids when they are young (third-fourth grade). In hindsight, I just don’t think S1 was mature enough to do what was required of him so he too ended up in braces for a couple of additional years. He hated his ortho but I have to say, his teeth are gorgeous. Now that all is said and done.</p>
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Read up on how braces work. Roots aren’t set in stone. </p>
<p>It really does depend person to person regarding the results of their braces. Some have a moldable mouth, others have teeth that revert back to one night of forgetfulness. The mouth has so many factors that prevent some from having “perfect” teeth. With my braces, my teeth moved very quickly. I remember the first week, spaced had already closed that they said would take a month!</p>
<p>Americans just might be obsessed with perfect looking teeth. I am very happy I got my braces. It took a year shorter than the estimated 24 months. While my teeth are perfectly straight and I have no problems, in the future I would mind bonding them to change the shape of some teeth. As time goes on I will definitely out in more thought. Don’t want to take away the character of my teeth. </p>
<p>Read up on how braces work. Roots aren’t set in stone.</p>
<p>I realize that, but there is only so much pressure can do, unless you want to irreparably shorten & damage your roots.</p>
<p>Yes, there is only so much you can do. That’s why braces results vary. </p>
<p>@VeryHappy It’s simply astonishing the cost some spend on their teeth. 10K? 20K? Even more! 
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<p>I wish I had a bunch of money to make my teeth as nice as those the movie stars have. I never needed braces, but my teeth are terribly yellow. And I can’t whiten them because they are replete with “restorations.” It would require veneers.</p>
<p>When I took D1 to London for her study abroad, one of the RAs at her dorm reached out to shake her hand. Before she had a chance to say anything, he said “You must be American. I can always tell because Americans always have such beautiful straight teeth.”</p>
<p>As to the OP, the first names which came to mind were Steve Buscemi and Elton John.</p>
<p>My daughter fell and hit her front tooth and killed the root when she was 5 or 6
It has been a little greyish ever since, but her teeth are amazingly straight!
She had braces for several years, as opposed to her sister, who had them for about 2 hours.
( her sister didn’t really need braces though, as she had been full term and nursed for a long time, the oldest had been a very small premie and still had a small mouth)</p>
<p>British people have notoriously bad teeth and the obsession white straight white teeth never made a lick of sense to most of them. That’s probably changed now, though. But, we were first. Watching old movies or TV shows is interesting because the bad, yellow teeth are very distracting. Of course, I got veneers in the 90’s. Now I want bigger, whiter veneers. </p>
<p>Jessica Pare, obviously. :)</p>
<p>What is awful? Her teeth don’t look awful to me. They look natural and are actually kind of cute. And, she is not American, either.</p>