why do people have their teeth capped/crowned?

[bobbie22]

I can understand that you sometimes have to have a crown to replace a missing (front) tooth. Why do people have a perfectly set of teeth all crowned so that they end up looking like they have a full set of false teeth - all the same size, and white, white white?

[anneasquith]

because thats what the "celebrities" do...........that cat is fabulous.

[tiggerblue10]

Maybe because they want perfect teeth as they may not have been happy with their original set. If I had the money I'd get mine sorted out.

[bobbie22]

Thanks for the cat comment. She is lovely.....Those teeth cost a bomb, and I can spot them at ten paces.

[anneasquith]

i would to tigger,

[NOX]

Why do women wear make up or buy nice clothes- because they think it improves their appearance- I think that is all there is to it.

[mazie]

I dread to think how much it would cost..It must be painful as well

[bobbie22]

I have one front one, it cost almost £200 and that was NHS price. But I dont think the whole mouthful looks attractive

[tiggerblue10]

A friend of mine tried to get hers whitened but the procedure which took ages was quite painful so she gave up. Complete waste of money and lots of pain.

[boxtops]

I've got several crowns, the dentist recommended them for my back teeth because the teeth were fragile, they save an awful lot of dentistry in the long run. I have three crowned teeth at the front, they covered teeth that were frail and with multiple fillings.

What I don't understand is veneers, where you take perfectly good teeth and enamel the fronts. That seems messing with nature to me.

[tiggerblue10]

Why do some women get their boobies done? Same principle really, because they want to make themselves feel better and they think it looks better too. Personally I would never have one but each to their own.

[bobbie22]

I just had my crown because my own tooth had been filled so many times, and that was painful enough. You are right tho, I think that the rich have veneers, maybe not crowns

[Marijn]

I agree with you bobbie. They don't look nice, they look like a set of false teeth. And also having a set of white, uniform teeth makes the rest of their face look old/imperfect in comparison. And it especially makes the whites of their eyes look yellow. Yuck!

[boxtops]

A bit like the false boobs, imagine what these shiny teeth will look like when they're 80!

[jomifl]

once you have had the lips plumped coloured and glossed, the facial lines filled with collagen and painted over, the forehead injected with botox, the eyebrows plucked and dyed, the lashes enhanced, the iris colour changed, the nose remodelled, the eyelids debagged and dehooded, a few 'tasteful' piercings in various places, there really isn't much more to be done on the outside..Look forward to tongue reshaping, throat profiling and stomach re-sizing .. ah we are already there!

[KARL]

I recall having as our acquaintance many years ago a particularly attractive neighbour's daughter aged around 18-20 (well, let's just come out with it and say she was an absolute jaw-dropping beauty). We used to chat across the divide between our houses when up on the flat roofs on a hot evening. Then one time she appeared and we chatted some more. She had a very attractive smile and this soon appeared - and to my dismay she revealed that her upper two eyeteeth (the number 3s as dentists call them) were now of gold. In that country everyone was blessed by particularly good/attractive teeth and rarely needed any attention for caries. But it was fashionable there to sport at least one highly visible gold tooth. I thought it was quite awful but that was my outsider's view.

[Goodsoulette]

I've got good teeth, people always ask how much the whitening cost. Never had it done, normal colgate for years and I am a smoker, love tea coffee and wine. Never had a filling or braces either :S the concept of toothache escapes me but thats just luck. My dad and his family have horrible teeth, lots of fillings, lots of staining and if I'd drawn those genes i'd pick veneers any day of the week. A nice smile says it all.

[Bobbisox]

my daughter is a dental nurse bobbie, the latest craze is to have a brace to make a gap in your two front teeth..
ughhhhh

[boxtops]

Oh bobbi.... I had a friend who had a natural gap, we really liked it, but as soon as she could afford it, she had it filled in. Whoever thought of this new craze - barmy!

[anneasquith]

nooooooooooo ?