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    Senior Member Country: United States torinfan's Avatar
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    Which British actors have had extensive dental work to make their teeth look too perfect?

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    Senior Member Country: UK Windyridge's Avatar
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    Martine McCutcheon's teeth make her look so hard, not to mention weird and scary. She creeps me out, actually.

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    Senior Member Country: United States MonicaMC's Avatar
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    I thought this was going to be a different take on the topic. I was thinking it was about which actors have had to make the switch from natural teeth to dentures. Although I guess that also encompasses the topic. :)

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    What happened to Dennis Waterman's choppers? He doesn't look quite right on "New tricks"!

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    Quote Originally Posted by torinfan View Post
    Which British actors have had extensive dental work to make their teeth look too perfect?

    If anyone knows, I beg you...don't tell me. Please! And that includes dentures, whatever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wadsy View Post
    What happened to Dennis Waterman's choppers? He doesn't look quite right on "New tricks"!
    Agreed! They appear to be ill-fitting dentures and they look terrible. I keep expecting them to pop out while he's talking.


    Errr, sorry Barbara!

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    Senior Member Country: UK didi-5's Avatar
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    LOL

    What an evil topic!

    Dennis Waterman came to mind immediately ... I'm sure there are others

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    Senior Member Country: UK Windthrop's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShirlGirl View Post
    Agreed! They appear to be ill-fitting dentures and they look terrible. I keep expecting them to pop out while he's talking.


    Errr, sorry Barbara!


    Looks like he has veneers on his teeth - but the cosmetic dentist hasn't done a 'sympathetic restoration'
    Last edited by Windthrop; 02-05-11 at 10:15 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShirlGirl View Post
    Agreed! They appear to be ill-fitting dentures and they look terrible. I keep expecting them to pop out while he's talking.


    Errr, sorry Barbara!
    I know I'll start watching them instead the actor.

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    Senior Member Country: United States theuofc's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by didi-5 View Post
    LOL

    What an evil topic!
    Oh, definitely cringe-worthy! eeeekkkk! the poor actor whose dentures we now fixate on.
    Ooops, there goes his performance!

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    What on Earth has Sean Bean had done ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by theuofc View Post
    I know I'll start watching them instead the actor.
    From the comments I see here and in similar places I think that a lot of people do already fixate on an actor's teeth. Especially the teeth of British actors. That's why I asked why it was so strange that people comment about hairpieces or cosmetic surgery when an actor has it done but they only comment about teeth when the actor hasn't had any (or enough) work done on them. It seemed like a double standard

    Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Crook View Post
    From the comments I see here and in similar places I think that a lot of people do already fixate on an actor's teeth. Especially the teeth of British actors. That's why I asked why it was so strange that people comment about hairpieces or cosmetic surgery when an actor has it done but they only comment about teeth when the actor hasn't had any (or enough) work done on them. It seemed like a double standard

    Steve
    Amazing. I can't recall anyone I know mentioning an actor's teeth! unless they were amazingly beautiful or buck teeth or there was a gap and even then, often an actress, would respond, 'I deliberately kept it as part of my charm'. Maybe American actors have better teeth since you single out Brit actors? I honestly have never noticed unless the actor is old and I 'hear' his false teeth getting in the way of his pronunciation and then I feel sorry for him.

    Somehow, it's always seemed so rude on my part to pick apart an actor for his teeth or his hairpiece or his nose or whatever. I don't do that to people I know. However, when it comes to his performance, then no holds barred because that's what he's there for.

    All best,

    Barbara
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    Administrator Country: Wales Steve Crook's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by theuofc View Post
    Amazing. I can't recall anyone I know mentioning an actor's teeth! unless they were amazingly beautiful or buck teeth or there was a gap and even then, often an actress, would respond, 'I deliberately kept it as part of my charm'. Maybe American actors have better teeth since you single out Brit actors? I honestly have never noticed unless the actor is old and I 'hear' his false teeth getting in the way of his pronunciation and then I feel sorry for him.

    Somehow, it's always seemed so rude on my part to pick apart an actor for his teeth or his hairpiece or his nose or whatever. I don't do that to people I know. However, when it comes to his performance, then no holds barred because that's what he's there for.

    All best,

    Barbara
    Ah, but you're hardly a "typical American"
    You're well travelled and know that in other countries people don't fixate about their teeth as much as many Americans seem to do.

    See the IMDb Message Board about Roger Livesey as one of many examples that I see. They are full of praise for his acting and especially his voice but they can't resist a comment about "his beaver-like teeth". I see that sort of thing all the time, nearly always from Americans. I assume it's because Americans aren't allowed on TV or film unless they have perfectly formed, fluorescent white, gnashers

    Steve

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    I much prefer imperfect teeth as long as they are clean. Identikit gnashers do nothing for me (and quite often, nothing for the recipient).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Windyridge View Post
    Martine McCutcheon's teeth make her look so hard, not to mention weird and scary. She creeps me out, actually.
    Coincidentally, her Activa advert came on just as I was reading your message, and scary is certainly the only way to describe that awful tombstone teeth smile.

    I am glad that I just had my teeth whitened!
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    I know he's American not British but Wayne Newton comes to mind in the fake teeth category. He's had dental work done as I have heard - not sure if they are capped or not.

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    It's possibly important to distinguish between sheer cosmetic toothery and just the saddish reality of some ageing actor having lost their natural ones and having to have replacements inserted. Depending on the dentistry job performed, that can often change an older person's mouth-shape.

    Overall I would guess that historically a film star was under much more pressure than a TV star, simply becases of the size of the screen. With the advent of giant plasma screens, perhaps that is no longer so easily imagined. There are many before/after pix on the web. Tom Cruise's youthful broken front teeth spring to mind. The trouble is nowadays that you never know if some of this stuff has been photoshopped.


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    Quote Originally Posted by theuofc View Post
    If anyone knows, I beg you...don't tell me. Please! And that includes dentures, whatever!
    Well... you DON'T have to read this thread.

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