Show me your teeth

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.

I just let mine rot, mostly.

haha this is not "show me tza's teeth" iirc

lol i think my teeth may have been in that pic, too?!

yes. yes they were.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149514_449546531588_506836588_5647195_1527115_n.jpg

:)

I remembered it because it wasn't Christmas when you posted it and you did so with a note saying something about seasonally inappropriate backdrop.

Nice teeth btw. Actually, all the teeth posted so far are pretty nice. Trip make esp has a nice looking set imo.

yeah fb says it was halloween lol

tza and crut both have awesome teeth.

(iirc)

Trayce! I love your teeth -- they're small and rabbity like Nicole Kidman's (I really like her early teeth, but the later ones seem a bit too white/cosmeticized)
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2004_Birth/Thumb/004BRT_Nicole_Kidman_028.jpg

I love all these pics of smiling ilxors. hoos' chipped front reminds me of my gradeschool bff and therefore i like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNDZhNRO28

i never smile in photos but here's me doing my best:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6242816100_4b56f9242e.jpg

aw, and as i saw the photo appear, i knew that i would see the real you, and there you are! i know who get bent is now. cute picture!!! you remind me of a girl i was really good friends with in 9th gr and she was in 10th gr. thanks for smiling!

here's andre (i think his latest ilx username is "peruvian guerilla general"):

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6242832840_3b4d1733c2.jpg

adorable. i love your face, too

how happy you are! that is a happy smile, for sure.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/4b7c9814.jpg

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

Me, too, strangely enough.

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!