<p>They look cute in some of the pictures. In others…not so much. Overall, she looks adorable. </p>
<p>The British actor who played Brutus in HBO’s Rome miniseries, also coming up as Frank Randall in Starz’s Outlander series - definitely crooked.</p>
<p>Also crooked, and somehow very, very appealing, the original actor from Game of Thrones who played Daario Naharis. </p>
<p>Mike Tyson for sure.</p>
<p>LOL, Dr Google. :D</p>
<p>Bad teeth can only be seen when one opens their mouth. Bad plastic surgery, OTOH, is harder to hide!</p>
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<p>My kids had braces and were told by their orthodonist they’d always need to wear their retainers at night, because yes, it’s true, your teeth will start going back. </p>
<p>It’s common these days to be permanently on retainers once your braces are removed. They are a very slim retainer, lightweight and every few years I need to replace them.</p>
<p>Here in the UK, braces are only applied if they are medically necessary, not for cosmetic reasons. They are covered by NHS for children under 18 (if medically necessary) but otherwise you have to private pay which is unaffordable for most people. Private dental insurance helps, but not everyone has it. So, in general, the British do not have the nice straight teeth that the Americans do. Seems like almost every kid in the US has braces (and Medicaid pays for braces for almost any reason, which is ridiculous). </p>
<p>I really like when people have a space between their front teeth. Very endearing.
Like Lauren Huttons.</p>
<p>Retainers have greatly benefitted from the advancements in technology. They’re sturdy, easily cleaned and maintained. I don’t mind wearing it for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>When I had just got my braces off, I had a good sense of when my teeth moved and how much. I could tell when to put my retainer on. When my orthodontist said I could start wearing them only at night, I knew my teeth weren’t ready and that at most 8 or 10 hours they should be off. 
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<p>In late 1965, Paul McCartney had a moped accident and chipped his front tooth badly. Apparently it was considered so unimportant that they went ahead and filmed 2 music videos - “Rain” and “Paperback Writer” - before he got it fixed. Can you imagine a recording star doing that today? </p>
<p>Here’s the Rain video - you can see the chipped tooth very clearly around 0:41.
<a href=“The Beatles - Rain Promo Video HQ - YouTube”>The Beatles - Rain Promo Video HQ - YouTube;
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<p>I have a relative who started her child on orthodontics at around age 5. Her premise was that it would prevent the need to remove teeth later, etc. The poor kid has contraption after contraption. I remember having a birthday party for one of my Ds and when we were doing the pinata this kid’s mom shouted out to her NOT TO EAT ANY OF THE CANDY because of her orthodontics. I felt sorry for her. I remember her mom tried to convince me to do the same for my D who was about the same age. Misery loves company. I just laughed. Anyway, the orthodontist that she used ended up losing his business because of some kind of fraud and this child was left mid treatment. She ended up in braces twice, palette expanders, etc, etc. to try to fix the mess he had made. She did not end up with an attractive mouth.<br>
My D did end up with braces, needed two teeth extracted (has very large white teeth. Lol.) She was done with the whole thing in about 18 months and she gets constant compliments on her smile, even by strangers. </p>
<p>Sometimes less is more.</p>
<p>^^^^No kidding!</p>
<p>Not everyone was advised to get braces when I was growing up. My teeth looked really straight, though they were not actually perfect. I didn’t have to have them and I was very thankful. If I had been born when my daughters were, I’m sure I would have been told I needed them. Both my girls had the expanders and braces later. I don’t remember that their course was significantly long, but it did seem longer than the norm. They have beautiful teeth now.</p>
<p>I actually had a dentist’s appointment today (American living in Australia). Every time I see my dentist here, he never fails to exclaim over the quality of the xrays I brought with me from the States, and always comments on my “beautiful teeth”. He says the British “underserve” the teeth, the Americans “overserve” the teeth, and Australia does it just right :). </p>
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<p>Some people abroad think Americans seems to like the horse teeth look. </p>
<p>This thread also reminds me of people who have had plastic surgery that drastically changed their looks.
Jennifer Grey credits her nosejob with her career nosedive.
She went from distinctive to generic.</p>
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<p>Same for accents! Could Kissinger or Peter Drucker have toned down the accents? Of course, but their voice was immediately recognizable. </p>
<p>When you hear a C-SPAN debate, which MOC do you remember? The ones with the heavy accents! :)</p>
<p>Personally, I have no problem with Jessica Pare’s teeth. They are just “awful” by industry standards.</p>
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<p>I’m fairly certain that most Americans also have to pay out of pocket for their children’s braces. We certainly did. </p>
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<p>It is actually quite difficult for people on Medicaid to find dentists who will accept it. The standard of care is also quite different, in some cases. For example, teeth being pulled rather than have a root canal and a crown. Visibly missing teeth will definitely affect employability. Although I am not convinced that Medicaid will pay for braces for “almost any reason,” I am happy to know that Medicaid is not allowing what in our society is basically a a lifelong class stigmata to persist.</p>
<p>Yup our dental insurance didn’t cover braces. Luckily only older son needed them. Buck teeth. Younger son was incredibly snaggle toothed when he was young and I was sure he’d be recommended for them too, but the dentist never brought it up and by the time he was 12 or 13 they’d all moved into place. He did need to get his wisdom teeth removed, while older son didn’t.</p>
<p>Most of this is cultural. The British National Health System is not great at basic dental care, meaning long waits for routine care and far less considered medically necessary than in the US. Paying for private care is not affordable for most residents. They also see no point in cosmetic straightening and many think the “All American smile” is fake and often looks like Chiclet teeth. Several Brits I know didn’t fix their teeth until they came to the US as adults and had never given it a thought previously. I do think it’s changing, though. Although, now there are more UK dentists going private and even longer NHS wait times. Years ago, unless it hurt no-one cared and there was no stigma since most had bad teeth. It’s also a class system over there so that issue doesn’t really exist in the UK. It’s a given. The working class is the working class. Royalty and the socialites have nice teeth.</p>
<p>Crooked, yellow teeth are so unsightly. I saw a British documentary with on camera people that held high level jobs, university jobs, and all I could look at were their terrible teeth. Brown, snaggle-toothed, uck. Is it all that tea? Too many sweets? Don’t they brush? </p>