“In some cultures like Caribbean Islanders, for example, they want the gap opened, “ says Drut. In fact, gapped teeth are treasured in places outside of the U.S. That same over-saturation of photos can be viewed the opposite way: In a sea of so many people who look the same, gapped teeth is a way to stand out as an individual. Brad Lockhart of Create Smiles.įunnily enough, social media also seems to be the reason for the diastema’s popularity. “The vast majority of patients I have seen over my 30 years of practice who have a beautiful smile and a diastema have chosen to leave the diastema,” says Dr. They exist in the spaces of power and beauty where I’m accustomed to seeing perfectly straight ones: Jessica Hart on the runway, Dani Evans winning America’s Next Top Model, Stacey Abrams’ isolated ivories beaming on the cover of New York magazine. Simultaneously, people with gapped teeth (medically called a diastema) are seemingly as "trendy" as faux freckles were a summer ago.
Somehow both of the following things are true: There is an increase in women closing their “smile gaps,” according to New York orthodontists. I’m learning that my love-hate relationship is shared by an increasingly visible gap-toothed population. Now, I’m of two minds about my gap teeth: somedays, the words of my bullies echo between the space, but most of the time I love it and see it as something unique that sets me apart. In high school, the gap between my two front teeth was the thing I most hated, so, naturally, it was the quality the gang of bullies took the most pleasure in calling out.
They’re not mature enough to hold their most evil thoughts in, but talented enough to pinpoint the very thing you are self-conscious about-then weaponize it. High school kids are the worst kind of mean.
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