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nothing to do with decades, i know. Try brushing your teeth 3 times daily with colgate whitening toothpaste.

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No, I hate my teeth.  They are so bad, I'll probably have to get braces again (I've already had them on the top, but not the bottom).. I guess I should wear my retainer more  :-/  :(
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Trust me they are probably not as bad as mine! my bottom teeth are horrible!  :(

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My teeth are ok, but I would really like them to be perfect.
I think there is nothing nicer than a beautiful, perfect smile, and nothing worse than a mouth full of yellow teeth with fillings and decay!!
My only problem is having slightly crooked bottom teeth and a gap near the back on the top row!
The English media is constantly telling us how much the Americans value perfect teeth.  If I ever get the money together, I will have mine done........ ;D
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8) 8) 8)I think mine arew nice-looking.They're on the small side,with 2 slightly larger ones in the middle,and straight from wearing braces.And they're naturally white--not blinding stark white like you see in commercials,but ivory white--the kind someone with a golden complexion would normally have.I guess some people would think they're not totally perfect,but I guess they would blow away the average English person.LOL ;D ;D :D :DCheers!

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Like Cat, whenever I eat something cold or even drink ice water sometimes, I feel a sharp pain on the tops of certain teeth--same goes with eating Starbursts and lemons.  Anyone know what this is from and why it happens? ??? :-/
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Add me to the growing list!  :-/  It's no fun having teeth that are so sensitive to cold.  I thought it was related to cavities, but even teeth that don't have cavities are sensitive.  :(

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Those of you that suffer with sensitive teeth might like to change your tooth paste to one for sensitive teeth.  These contain something (forget what, except that its a salt) which fills the microscopic holes in your tooth enamel.  I'm not sure that it will work on pain when you eat sweets but it certainly does work on the hot/cold type of sensitivity.

I once asked my dentist about tooth pain when I eat sweet things and he said it just showed that the tooth was alive!
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I DO use a sensitive toothpaste. My hygenist and my dentist both say that my teeth are "hyposensitive" or "hypersensitive." It is just something that I have to live with.


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nothing to do with decades, i know. Try brushing your teeth 3 times daily with colgate whitening toothpaste.

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I like my teeth, they look good.

I have seen articles which state those whitening strips can remove enamil off the teeth, so they can make the tooth sensitive and more prone to decay. I have never had a proplem with the color of my teeth, but I do not smoke and I don't drink too much coffie.

I had sensitive teeth a few years ago. Never knew where it came from, and had no idea why it left. I could not drink anything which was too cold, or one tooth just would let me have it. It was a cringing pain. I tried everything from those pain gels for teeth to crushing asprin and rubbing it into the gums. Nothing worked. Then, as quickly as it came, it left. I never found out what caused it.

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I've got to add the worst teeth i've seen (at least in 'ShowBiz') is Billy-Joe of Green Day's! ;D  Probably the punkest thing about the guy.

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Hoeveel, I feel you're right about teeth being a bigger issue to those from the USA than anywhere else (except perhaps for some of those Indo-Pacific/ South American tribes who file them flat). As for this 'free' NHS dental treatment, where/ how d'ya get that?? As far as I know, you have to pay (normally an exorbitant amount) for any treatment (excepting hospitalisation), be it via NHS or private- in most areas it's nigh on impossible to sign on to an NHS dentist as a new patient (waiting list 2,000 patients in my town)... I feel the new culture of having to pay for dental treatment hasn't yet sunk in in the UK, hence our narrow-lipped smiles compared to those of our American 'cousins'...
As for worst teeth in showbiz, Shane Mcgowan of The Pogues has to come near the top of the list. I thought dental care had travelled more than an oceanic distance from Ireland to the U.S., then I thought about Jaws...man, does that fish need to floss (especially having been killed in several sequels...)  

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I think most Brits would agree with me on this one: We have the view of Americans having large, unnaturally white and freakishly straight teeth and spending excessive amounts of money on 'fixing' them; which may prove to be as inaccurate as your stereotype of us. *shrugs*

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Hoe, I have noticed a certain amount of anaology between your comments above, and Americans' "percieved" attitude to their breasts. Apart from changing 'freakishly straight' to 'freakishly round', of course. Would anyone please like to comment from other countries who feel it necessary to cosmetically enhance their body parts, and if your country has a particular body part that people lean towards 'perfecting'???

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I think breast enlargements are as commonplace in Britain as they are in America. Katie Price (real name of Jordan) is perhaps famous for her cosmetic surgery than anything else.
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Yep, and plenty of others. (That being said, isn't Jordan famous for her 'freak value' in UK by having rather too many operations, whereas this sort of disfigurement is more well publicised in U.S. citizens?? Can't think of any other UK (whatever Jordan does) 'celebs??' who attract their main publicity through their plastic surgery). I was trying to allude to Hoeveels' indication that this was a stereotypical view of Americans, rather than presenting this as fact- I think body modification such as plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons may well be as widespread in the UK as the US (haven't checked figures to back this up), but I feel the British psyche is not as far advanced along the line of seeing artificial modification as a preferable route to 'beauty' as our stereotype of the American psyche. I knew I was playing with fire, getting into the stereotyping bit; I know stereotypes are often wildly innacurate (and I have met some Americans who don't fulfil our many & varied 'expectations' of their behaviour), but I was alluding to our stereotypical view of U.S.A. citizens, rather than trying to represent the analogies I saw as fact. "Only the madman is completely sure", as a book once told me, and there's no way I think my opinion constitutes fact; maybe I saw parallels that weren't there, my apologies to any U.S. (or indeed Brit) readers I may have offended. (Keep your chin up, though if it starts to sag....) ;D.

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As for this 'free' NHS dental treatment, where/ how d'ya get that?? As far as I know, you have to pay (normally an exorbitant amount) for any treatment (excepting hospitalisation), be it via NHS or private- in most areas it's nigh on impossible to sign on to an NHS dentist as a new patient (waiting list 2,000 patients in my town)... I feel the new culture of having to pay for dental treatment hasn't yet sunk in in the UK, hence our narrow-lipped smiles compared to those of our American 'cousins'...
As for worst teeth in showbiz, Shane Mcgowan of The Pogues has to come near the top of the list. I thought dental care had travelled more than an oceanic distance from Ireland to the U.S., then I thought about Jaws...man, does that fish need to floss (especially having been killed in several sequels...)  
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Well, i could be wrong cos i never get any medical treatment - dental or otherwise.  But even though there's waiting lists for everything (thanks New 'Labour') any necessary dentistry or surgery is free on the N.H.S.

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I hated wearing a Retainer.Before you would start eating,you would have to take your reatiner out of your mouth and after you finish eating,you'd put em'back in just like dentures. :(

Howard
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And you talked like you had peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. Ah, yes. I remember those day.  ::)


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And you talked like you had peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. Ah, yes. I remember those day.  ::)


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Hey Cat,I wish I could've saved em'.I threw it out 15 years ago.

Howard