I have a prosthetic that replaces nine teeth and a significant portion of gum tissue lost due to a surgery, and I had to fight tooth (heh) and nail to get him to make one where the teeth weren’t perfect. He wanted to add a veneer to one of my remaining teeth so I would have that chiclet smile. No, thank you.
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RaoulDuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Veneers are probably the ugliest thing rich people do. I can understand if someone has really jacked up teeth, but most don’t that have them. Im a fan of natural looking teeth.
Trevita17@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hegar@fedia.io 2 days ago
Omg never do I get so many downvotes as when I point out how unnatural a white wall of american teeth look.
To me it's like neck rings or cranial deformation. Intellectually I understand it's a cultural practice that must display worth to those within the culture or they wouldn't do it. But that's not the effect it has on me.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You know what’s funny? We put fluoride in tap water cause dentists noticed people that drink allot of well water had incredibly strong teeth, and it’s because the rocks were leeching fluoride into the water. It had the aesthetic side effect of also turning their teeth brown. So white teeth are actually a sign of weakness. Checkmate hawllywud lrbrle eeleets!!!1!