In America, we spend nearly $110 billion on dental care. But in Japan a new cosmetic surgery has got women paying to have their straight teeth rearranged. Yup, that’s right. A common result of tooth crowding or more commonly known as “snaggleteeth” has somehow become associated with the U.S.
The look is called “yaeba” in Japanese or translated - “double tooth.” Japanese men apparently find this attractive, with blogs dedicated to finding celebrities with these snaggleteeth. So how does one create a “snaggletooth” you might ask?
Dentists create it by artificially affixing plastic fronts to their real teeth. But don’t judge the Japanese just yet, us Westerners are apparently fixated on it as well.
The new gap tooth in modeling is the equivilant of the perfect smile of the 90s. Last year, the host and model Tyra Banks encouraged one contestant to have the gap between her two front teeth widened.
