Show me your teeth

dayo tell me more

My dentist falls all over himself to tell me what great teeth I have every time I go to the dentist. This makes me inordinately proud of my teeth. I mentioned this at my last appointment and he said, "You should be proud! You have great teeth! That's because you take care of them!" etc.

So, I am very proud of my teeth. Also I had my front two teeth bonded when I was in junior high and even though that's only supposed to last five years tops, it's still going strong.

It's more about the configuration of teeth than their health. Jenny, you have square straight strong teeth.

Some people have thin wafery clear teeth.

Thank you. I have never had braces. I have good teeth genes.

here are my teeth

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/Photo446-1.jpg

i'm not sure why i am choking myself.

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well I had braces when I was 11 or 12. and a palate expander. after they came off they revealed that I have an underbite. the orthodontist told me that to fix it, I would have to get a tooth extracted and the rest of my teeth pushed around to fill the gap - is that even possible? they also installed a permanent wire.

this other kid I knew had a big gap between his front teeth but after he hit puberty, it all straightened itself out and he had perfect teeth!

I always wonder what my teeth would have ended up like if I had let nature take its course.

presently, I think my front teeth are slightly uneven and my incisors are slanting inwards.

also I have like 7 cavities, all gotten within a 5 month period of munching on jelly bellies when I was maybe 13. I brush twice a day with a sonicare and I also use a waterpik.

my teeth are sensitive to temperature, sugar and (I think) acidity. after I eat a tart apple, I will feel tingling and slight pain if I chew gum. I live in fear of getting another cavity.

My teeth are disproportionately large for the rest of my mouth.
I like uneven teeth a lot -- esp when the front ones slant in just slightly.

I also had a lot of cavities (also possibly b/c of jelly bellies!) and a verifiably sadistic orthodontist who is no longer practicing.

But I want to see teeth, not talk about their health or trauma to the teeth.

jed you have small squares with a hint of crooked. i like them.

I like crooked teeth. I think they make people look interesting. I also like a nice front tooth gap, like Gwen Harper here:

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2900000/Jack-Gwen-Header-torchwood-2908454-780-380.jpg

I had a BF in college who had an underbite fixed. He had his jaw broken and wired shut for awhile.

i am a bit of a teeth snob. i had orthodontics in high school from age 12-17, so that's prob a part of it, this painful quest for some kind of correction->perfection. and my teeth aren't even 'perfect' - they were never bad anyway, more of a jaw alignment issue that was corrected(ish). they did extract one molar when i was 12 or 13 and i still don't think they should have, bc i think it caused slight asymmetry of my face. but what's done is done! i'm not going in for jaw surgery that's for sure. i floss every day and don't have cavities, though soon will need a gum graft on a few teeth :/

but anyway, i have many friends who have imperfect or outright messed-up teeth, and i don't care, i mean, that's part of who they are. and yet a nice straight set of teeth is an amazing and intriguing thing to me. i have def said to people "you have great teeth!"

xps to LL - hahaa okay!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2660765891_b46a9c5993.jpg

I do think it's weird that americans culturally value perfect teeth so much!

here is my friend with her beautiful distinctive teeth that she never hides and i love that about her

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ty La Lechera, i'v never had a brace or any kind of cosmetic dentistry, which is surely evident, but they are pretty straight at the top and slightly squinty and overcrowded at the bottom front. they are ivory coloured and i would like them whiter. i have A LOT of amalgum fillings which i can't afford to replace atm and you can see one of them at the top left of my mouth.

aw!
xp

also that is me and my giant chompers

yours are nice rrrobyn, strong and nice ratio of lip/tooth.

xp I think it probably reflects a value for affluence - braces are expensive so if your kids have perfect teeth, it's a non-ostentatious and health-justifiable way of showing you've got some money. Ditto regular dental care. Dental plans cost extra money so having well cared for teeth is a sign of affluence.

what about me Art Arfons

I was so bummed about Bowie's teeth fixup when I discovered it in high school that my friend made me a poster of "The Original Choppers of David Bowie." It was an 8.5x11" piece of paper on which she glued printouts of every internet pic she could find of his true awesome mouth.

I was really bummed when I recently discovered Marin Gore had done the same thing.

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Echo+Award+2010+RkKNQydlN-ql.jpg

Why come you can wear bondage suspenders and leather shorts on stage but are self-conscious about your teeth???

sometimes people get teeth fixed for mainly health reasons I guess like martin amis supposedly

i likeauthentic looking teeth and/or distinctive teeth
really though i just kind of need to see them, whatever they look like.

martin gore's teeth are disturbing.

what about you conrad

I showed you my teeth you're now supposed to tell me who I am

I was really worried when my wisdom teeth grew in that it would fuck things up for my mouth. When I finally got around to seeing a dentist, he told me there would be room in my mouth for four more teeth needs be. This is empirical evidence that I have a big mouth.

you are a small dainty little man with a lot of problems

WRONG

you are a scorpio, and a powerful public speaker

you are right handed, and you have trouble sleeping in new places

I am right handed

you are a rotter is my guess.

<3

i think estela referring to people as rotters might be one of my favorite things

wrong

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I had braces from age 8 to 14. They pulled 10 baby teeth to put those suckers on me. When they came off my teeth were perfect but started to shift soon thereafter. I couldn't sleep through the night with the retainer they gave me so hardly wore it and I grind my teeth so badly that it made them shift even faster.

I hate my teeth now and am very self-conscious of them. I had to search for like 10 mins to find a pic of me smile with my mouth open. IRL I smile widely and often and don't think about it too much but I'm aware of it in pictures. I really want invisilign but I don't know if that'll work because of the grinding.

Here is my sleazy expression to showcase my sleazy teeth:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9837/bleuwghuw.jpg

One of the front teeth is shy and hides behind the other a little.

x-post - I have several gaps in the top row and a slight overbite. The bottom row is totally crooked too but I don't care as much about that one as it's not as visible.

the last time i went to the dentist he said, 'wow those look like good teeth!' and then he looked at my x-ray and found a cavity (sigh, 4 years of no dental insurance!) and it was sad.

enbb yours are very square-- that's distinctive
abbott's remind me of ally sheedy

ally sheedy has long crowded pointies

i was supposed to get braces but my parents couldn't afford it - or so they said - but then for my younger siblings they somehow found the money. a dentist told me the inside of my mouth is unusually small and all my teeth are crowded in, overlapping each other. my top two front teeth overlap, which i really only noticed for the first time about 4 yrs ago when i saw a photo of myself caught laughing unawares. now i'm extra aware of it and i'm convinced they're becoming more and more overlapped.

My gf and I went to the Hirshhorn today and spent a while in a room lit only by a blue Dan Flavin sculpture. It made our teeth look pink.

i never had braces! my teeth are naturally straight which i really appreciate having watched my sisters go through headgears, braces and/or retainers

I have always been self concious of a toothy grin in photos so you'll find most of mine I am either not smiling at all, or I'm pulling a tight, chimplike toothless smile. Its not that I dont like my teeth! My teeth are fine. I just tend to look... gummy? Also my top lip is thin.

But sometimes, I tooth up:

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nb they are also not yellow, I rly should have done a levels/white balance on that pic heh.

T, you're lucky. I had a headgear and rubber bands and everything. It was p awful. In the end I guess maybe mine aren't that bad I just wish they hadn't moved so much.

One of my favorite pictures with a dear old friend.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/9131_131610859422_663169422_2481390_5837897_n.jpg
I'm the one showing tooth

T, you're lucky. I had a headgear and rubber bands and everything. It was p awful. In the end I guess maybe mine aren't that bad I just wish they hadn't moved so much.

Oohh the rubber bands they were the worst. I also hated going in monthly to have the wiring/anchors tightened, for days after that was done my teeth and jaw would ache sooooo much. Ugh. Nightmare.

they're big for her mouth, possibly larger than ideal
kind of like mine!

http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/posey-backwards-heels/parker-posey-backwards-heels-03.jpg

I must guiltily admit that made me search for a picture of her with vampire teeth from her appearance in the Blade franchise

they're very square and neatly aligned
i'd guess she had braces

that's what stood out to me too when I watched her in louie!

'parker posey teeth' shows her in braces

mine are somewhat devolving, what with a bit of floating around with age and a few chips here and there :/

not that this has any bearing on ms. posey and her excellent teeth

show me your teeth

^^ name of the thread

speaking of parker posey and her teeth, they are on full display here and have an interesting/contrasty counterpart in amber tamblyn's rabbity teeth

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18cp9c1y24zk5jpg/original.jpg

too large for her mouth otm

still, everyone looks good with a big genuine smile imo

Found nine of my permanent teeth in a shot glass when going through boxes in my closet this past week. I've had ten removed, but one wisdom tooth is missing, I think it got pulverized during the removal process. I could take pictures. Shot glass is from the Johnson Space Center!

Whoa wait you have your teeth in a shot glass in your closet? That's pretty tuff.

Well, now they're in a shot glass on the shelf in my bedroom.

For the record I had 5 wisdom teeth, they were all impacted, and I have none of them.

Your shot glass full of teeth scares me, but in kind of a good way.

i hope yr bedroom shelf is on its way to resembling jeff goldblum's bathroom cabinet in the fly.

My cat snuck into the teleporter and I am growing a lovely tail and eating more fish.

this tumblr made me sweat with fear
like, i actually broke out in a sweat while looking at it
http://actresseswithoutteeth.tumblr.com/

Basically everyone looks either really surprised or like Ozzy Osbourne.

Or like a howling toothless prisoner enjoying her last few moments of fresh air before being thrown back into the well where she has lived for the last dozen years while her teeth fell out (Dakota Fanning aside, she has been down there her whole life)

Or Albert Steptoe from Steptoe & Son.

Posh Spice wisely keeping her lips sealed.

When ever this thread gets bumped, I hear the title to the times of Show Me Your Soul

The tune

Looool this one?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdSRviwq6Qo

these extra whitening toothpastes don't compromise on cavity/bacteria/plaque protection do they? do they just add extra cleaning agents?

I remember my old dentist telling me that they can make teeth more sensitive, but I'd really (personally) rather not discuss the minutiae of dental sensitivity tbrr.

That's p much the only info I have too.

much appreciated! no problem - bad experiences of dental sensitivity?

john doe's teeth used to be so wonderful and distinctive
now they look like everyone else's :(

http://margaretlabombard.com/wp-content/uploads/John-Doe-400x250.jpg

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Nice!

This thread has totally changed the way I smile for pictures.

i just found this old x-ray from 2006:

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xp - that's a new one! i haven't had my picture taken in a while so i don't have anything to post

that's a pretty cool xray/rain

a moment of silence for sam shepard's old teeth
they were great even when he got older, gave his face so much character
disappointment second only to bowie (so far)
http://www.famouspeopleinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sam-Shepard-5.jpg

granted he has a pretty spectacular face but still

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8749/16689311519_d42e6b2459.jpg
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fancy!