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Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natur
by pb7 3y ago
Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natural?
Corrected vision is unnatural. Did we go a bit far on that too?
Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.
- mc32 3y agoApparently anything man-made to modify natural outcomes is unnatural. There are extremes, like elective cosmetic surgery, fake tans, cranial implants, etc., but some things just make living as an ordinary person easier. Glasses, hearing aids, normal medicines, etc.
- beezlewax 3y agoTouché! Maybe its just the blinding whiteness then.
- akiselev 3y ago[flagged]
- oldgradstudent 3y agoWhen people destroy their natural healthy teeth to put on veneers, it's very far on that. When people destroy their teeth enamel, it's very far on that too. Destroying your natural teeth for an extra shade of blinding white or marginally straighter teeth is insane, and quite common.
- borski 3y agoWe can all agree that somewhere in between is certainly the preferred option. Walking around with all veneers or crowns is a problem, but so is walking around with constant cavities and yellow teeth, so likely somewhere in between what the US does and the EU does.
- pessimizer 3y agoHealthy teeth have nothing to do with veneers and crowns. The opposite of a decorated mouth is not a sick mouth, just like the opposite of a bright pink house isn't a burned down house.
- oldgradstudent 3y agoWorse, a veneer decorated mouth is a maimed mouth, whose healthy tissues were destroyed. Veneers don't last forever, they will require lifetime commitment.
- borski 3y agoLosing your teeth is also a lifetime commitment.
- borski 3y agoSure, that’s obviously true, but misses my point; on average, European teeth are less healthy than American teeth. At the same time, American teeth tend to have too much work done on them on average. Both of these things can be true simultaneously.
- pengaru 3y ago> Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less. err, maybe if they also didn't drink so much coffee and/or tea Let's not ignore the fact that Americans have largely embraced teeth whitening as a norm.