Quick question about teeth and standards of beauty (possibly mildly nsfw)

[Undertoad]

Fark used to post this at times like these

[TheMercenary]

Heh. I have not looked at Fark in a long time. I will have to revisit.

[Trilby]

she's completely beautiful and I see nothing wrong with her teeth (and mine are completely straight thru fluke of genes not dentistry) - I think her teeth are charming. Like Kirsten Dunst.

[footfootfoot]

I am not a teeth fetishist, but there is always something that is a dealbreaker for anyone. SWMBO went to school with a guy who said that if a woman had small breasts, she might as well not even have a head. That is clearly his trip, not a general matter of fact.

I've done some teeth retouching in photoshop and have seen that a lot of personality and character is lost (sometimes for the better) when teeth are fixed.

My dentist has a before and after set of photos of peopple who've had cosmetic dentistry done. In 90% of the photos the people look about 25-50 IQ points higher in the after photos. There is always one person who has work done needlessly (due to some mental problems) and those people don't usually look better.

That said, there is nothing wrong with the girl in those pictures as far as I can see.

[DanaC]

Thanks for the responses. I completely get that we all have our own deal breakers, and crooked teeth are clearly his deal breaker...

I was curious more because I know that as a Brit I have a different orientation to these things. I hadn't even noticed her teeth til it was pointed out.

My niece has gorgeous teeth apart from a small gap between her two front teeth. It's tiny, and kind of pretty: bit like that Sookie Stackhouse chick's front teeth. She's really self conscious about it. I, and the rest of the family have been telliing her she looks beautiful and the iny gap just adds to that. After the conversation over on the MO forums, I was wondering if we were steering her wrong ;P

[monster]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I was curious more because I know that as a Brit I have a different orientation to these things. I hadn't even noticed her teeth til it was pointed out.

Ten years ago I bet I wouldn't have noticed either. But it does rather stand out from this side of the pond and the decade.

[footfootfoot]

Gap-toothed I was, and that became me well:
I had the print of Saintè Venus' seal.


As help me God, I was a lusty one,
And fair, and rich, and young, and well begone;

And truly, as mine husbands toldè me,
I had the bestè quoniam might be,

For certès I am all Venerian
In feeling, and my heart is Martian;
Venus me gave my lust and likerousness,

And Mars gave me my sturdy hardiness.
Mine áscendent was Taur, and Mars therein

[glatt]

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[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by glatt

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I love her gap

Ted Williams[The Voice] is hard to look at his teeth look like he has been eating bricks.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Juniper

Do they have different standards for muffin tops too, by chance?

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Nah, but they call them crumpet tops.

A strumpet with a crumpet?

Originally Posted by Nirvana

Ted Williams[The Voice] is hard to look at his teeth look like he has been eating bricks.

And smoking crack.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

And smoking crack.

Quite likely. We call it "crack mouth" in health care. And his are much better than most.

[casimendocina]

Let's look at the other side of things. What do women have to say about men with a gap between their front teeth?

[DanaC]

Can't say as I've ever thought about it really...

As long as teeth are clean I don't much care if they're a little uneven.

[Shawnee123]

As long as he doesn't spit on the sidewalk or out his pick-up window, I don't really care. Like Dana said: clean.

I think about people asking other people things like "would you still love me if all my teeth were rotted out?" and the answer, for me, would be "you wouldn't be the same person if all your teeth were rotted out, because 'this' person brushes his teeth and 'that' person obviously doesn't."

[Sundae]

I'm British. I simply don't focus on teeth.
Two of my ex's had pretty bad teeth (due to childhood neglect). Both had them fixed - one before and one after we were current. I was pleased for them, but it made no difference to their attractiveness in my eyes.

I mean I'm not talking Shane McGowen here... But I did once fall for a man with a slight gap and a chipped front tooth (from opening beer bottles - one of my first little gifts to him was a bottle opener to fit on his keyring).

I cannot abide a man with bad breath though. I was once getting closer and closer to a customer in the pub I worked in. I was really drawn to him. We went on a date and snogged for the first time and I could never see him again after that. I think he was a bit confused, because I'd flirted with him shamelessly and we had such great conversations. But his breath literally smelled of poo. Even the next morning I could smell it on my upper lip, like someone had given me a Dirty Sanchez. Grim.