The Top 10 Celebrity Smiles- #5

#5- Farrah Fawcett (Majors)

This image started a poster craze of scantily clad young ladies that adorned the bedroom walls of every teenage boy’s room beginning in the late 70’s. When your eyes weren’t engaged elsewhere you begin to notice the smile that Farrah was famous for (ok, her hairdo was pretty famous as well).

Obviously her teeth are well aligned and white, but what she started was the “buccal corridor” era. What that means is when she smiles her back teeth are visible. When people have back teeth that are less visible or a upper arch (jaw) that is constricted this creates a shadow effect in that area and is not considered as esthetic as a “full broad smile”.

The Top 10 Celebrity Smiles- #6

#6 Anna Torv 

 

The star of the X Files rip off Fringe, Anna Torv has a beautiful smile, now that is. Prior to her smile makeover she had a gap between her front teeth, called a diastema in dental lingo. Now, many beautiful people have or had diastemas, my mother being one of them and for some it adds character and looks fine. But for others it can be distracting. This is Anna before:

 

The dentist who did her makeover did a great job of redistributing the space among the other teeth by veneers 8 front teeth. If he had just closed the space by adding to the central teeth only they would have ended up being too wide.

 

 



The Top 10 Celebrity Smiles- #7

Amanda Bynes 

Before she replaced Lindsay Lohan as president of the Nut of the Year Club, Amanda Bynes was a child star with a bright future. Her smile demonstrates an important concept in esthetic dentistry that being Central Dominance. Within reason I like to see the central incisors set the tone for the smile and be the prominent teeth in the arch. If the centrals are somewhat symmetric and to proper length the foundation for an attractive look has been established.

 
The other thing I like about this smile is that the teeth aren’t perfectly aligned, but have a lot of character.  I hope she gets her act together and we can see her smiling again someday!