Show me your teeth

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

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/100629-215546-2.jpg
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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:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/20737_302869482756_726857756_3944591_5936581_n.jpg

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.

omg what's wrong with my computer!? I didn't double post that intentionally.

Oh the tightening was so awful.

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.

LOL your computer's got a mind of its own!

omg weird!!!!

I did have a purple glitter retainer and used to get colored bands on the actual braces. That part was pretty sweet.

omg i had a purple retainer with silver stars in it!

<3 <3

I was so so excited about that. I remember it well.

tho at the beginning of my orthodontic journey, i had something called a bionator, which was just clear-ish plastic, and was made to wear it during the day at school even though i could hardly talk through it. i sort of cared but not really? it was kind of gross. i still remember my mom saying to me "put your bionator in!!" lolll xtra pre-teen trauma.

i was a good kid

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.

>:O

I sometimes still have dreams about wearing my retainer, or having bits of brace brackets still stuck on my teef.

But! We were asked not to go over dental traumas haha.

Wow I just went thru all my FB pics of myself and I am only tooth-smiling in two, out of dozens and dozens. Thats a bit sad!

LOL wtf have you done Erica!

http://i55.tinypic.com/2sa0y02.jpg

had braces & retainer for a couple of years to straighten teeth out.

in 2005 i was too-enthusiastically rehearsing a slam piece and i tooth-checked the mic, leading to a small chip.

in 2007 i was trying to swig from a bottle of wine and my gf grabbed the bottle in motion, then released it, sending it careening into same tooth and chipping away a little more.

in 2009 i had a couple too many whiskies and face planted into a parking space, leading to the full "oh, it's got character!" half moon chip it's at now.

girl i dated once referred, in an affectionate way, to my "british teeth."

Trayce that is a great picture of you! V cuet.

Hey, you cut out Tza!

(i think. iir that pic c, I mean)

I got braces on my upper teeth when I was 13. before getting them I had pretty horrible buck teeth.

i like all these pictures of smiling ilxors! :D

i never had braces, and i think i am slowly grinding my teeth out of existence, but i think that will be kind of a relief.

Yes I think I am beginning to understand what La Lech meant, now.

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
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7591/16255472613_403e54e82b.jpg

fancy!