Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8190052)

Yellow teeth, or long term enamel damage, even tongue cancer from the peroxide...Hmm... not too hard to choose which I would prefer to take my chances with.

At the risk of thread drift what's with modern societies obsession with youthful appearance anyway? It seems so shallow, and why do otherwise sane and intelligent people subject themselves to unnecessary procedures just for cosmetic ends. And why are doctors allowed to get away with performing, even encouraging so many unnecessary procedures...

Originally Posted by fledermaus (Post 8189990)

She already had a bandage round her head....

Originally Posted by G77 (Post 8190094)

I've been putting off going to the dentist for the year I've been here, though I'm going to have to relent in the new year, can't wait for the inevitable tutting and cash register chings in his head....

Originally Posted by greenbwoy (Post 8190023)

I've said it before, I'll say it again...teeth aren't meant to be brilliant white, they're naturally a creamy colour that north americans think is yellow. Crazy.

Originally Posted by Lord Vader (Post 8190102)

Could it be the tea doing that?

Originally Posted by fledermaus (Post 8190150)

or the coffee.

Originally Posted by Zoe Bell (Post 8190120)

I don't understand the glowing teeth obsession either

one of my friend's teeth literally glow in the dark
I was most amused at Halloween ;)

Originally Posted by fledermaus (Post 8189967)

Some ruddy Canadian, a stranger that I was talking to in the waiting room at Sunnybrook told me that I should get my yellow English teeth whitened as it would make me look younger...

:(:huh:

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8190052)

Yellow teeth, or long term enamel damage, even tongue cancer from the peroxide...Hmm... not too hard to choose which I would prefer to take my chances with.

At the risk of thread drift what's with modern societies obsession with youthful appearance anyway? It seems so shallow, and why do otherwise sane and intelligent people subject themselves to unnecessary procedures just for cosmetic ends. And why are doctors allowed to get away with performing, even encouraging so many unnecessary procedures...

Originally Posted by ann m (Post 8190480)

It's nice to see a straight-ish, full set of teeth. No black, missing or broken bits.

But luminescent white pegs? Not sure really. I know many people here that have it done, and it looks OK and makes me feel under a little pressure, like I ought to consider it - but I can't think that stripping the enamel and subjecting it to all sorts of ultraviolet lights and bleaches is the route to having many of them left by the time I'm 60.

Originally Posted by ann m (Post 8190480)

It's nice to see a straight-ish, full set of teeth. No black, missing or broken bits.

But luminescent white pegs? Not sure really. I know many people here that have it done, and it looks OK and makes me feel under a little pressure, like I ought to consider it - but I can't think that stripping the enamel and subjecting it to all sorts of ultraviolet lights and bleaches is the route to having many of them left by the time I'm 60.