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No actually, they're not the same. It's not a secret that Miley has had her teeth messed with for years.

they're not

you shouldn't roll your eyes, it might further the damage.

I agree that the photo comparison does a terrible job showing it, but she actually does look a lot different.

i'm p sure miley has mentioned her dental work b4

she's mentioned before how excited she was to get work on her gums. her mouth has gone through at least 2 changes imo

She's had lingual braces.

lol no they aren't

I asked my dentist about whitening strips and enamel, he said it was fine if it was just occasional

the crest strips are good..i bought the advanced professionals ones recently tho and i put them on for about 45 mins and started reading reviews (idk why i didnt before i purchased them tbh) and i was freaking out. everyone said the sensitivity and pain was ridic i immediately took them off and didn't use the rest lol

long story short get the regular ones that you wear like half an hour..those worked best for me when i got my braces off

that's funny, braces put me off corn - I'll eat it, but I'm not fond of it now.

whitening mouthwash works well for me.

swish hydrogen peroxide. That's like the active ingredient in whitening mouth washes I think. Also I think brushing with baking soda every once and a while.

they work and give long lasting results if you brush as you are supposed to

I heard if you rub a banana peel over them it whitens your teeth. Also, hydrogen peroxide recipes are all over pinterest.

I think the common sense ones are flossing, brushing twice per day. Stay away from soda, coffee, smoking, acidic foods.

According to what I learned in dental hygiene school, take home kits from dentist offices are best. Be sure you use toothpaste for sensitivity (sensodyne, for example). If not you can have "zingers" and man do they hurt!

To give a whiter appearance, the darker the skin, the whiter the teeth (not promoting tanning but as far as makeup or just natural skin tone it can help it). Also the color lipstick you use is very important, assuming that you are a woman.

I bet people have some better ones than me.

i use plus white 5 minute speed whitening gel. it works but your teeth are really weak/sensitive afterwards. like it hurts to breath in cold air when i'm outside sometimes :\

Arm & Hammer w/ baking soda. I swear, I've been using that for years, and my dentist loves me.

I've been using the finishing touch smile pen and I've seen results and I've only used it since Tuesday. I only use it twice though, even though they said you can use it up to 4 times, so maybe if you use it that much the results will come quicker.

arm and hammer whitening gel!

Try to drink dark liquids with a straw.

If you have those funny white splotches left over from braces try MI Paste (it's only available at the dental office, not in stores). It uses calcium and phosphorous to remineralize your teeth; so overall it serves as a whitening agent, desensitizer, and smooths out overall tooth colour.

That being said, whenever I bleach my teeth (I use whitening gel in custom made trays), I ALWAYS use MI Paste afterwards. It helps to not make my teeth so sensitive and adds an extra boost of white.

My dentist told me the only over the counter whitening product he recommends is Crest White Strips. He said to brush your teeth for a week with toothpaste like Sensodyne before using them. I used the advanced white strips and totally noticed a difference. I did the prep the week before and brushed with Sensodyne while doing the strips and didn't have any pain/sensitivity.

dental hygiene student here...
crest white strips premium or professional work well over time...(AFTER A GOOD CLEANING)

however, ZOOM whitening @ dentists really does work like FAST but it's expensive. $500ish but way worth it. i got to do it on a patient a few months ago and she left with the whitest teeth i've ever seen.

baking soda lol

I wore removable braces for four years ,regular braces for two and it's been three years and I'm still wearing my retainer (every third night tho). I know how you feel lol

also nowadays I always cut/tear my food into pieces,almost never bite it off because of braces,I can't kick the habit

I use a whitening toothpaste (rn it's Crest 3D White or whatever it's called) and Arm & Hammer Whitening Booster. Works pretty well for cheap. :)

I get compliments on my white teeth all the time.

I use a Phillips sonicare toothbrush. It's so amazing, it really helps whitening your teeth because it's so effective. It feels like going to the dentist for a teeth cleaning every time you brush them.

I use crest whitestrips (the original) very occasionally. Like maybe 1 time per year, just for kind of a boost.

I rinse out my mouth or brush my teeth each and every time I have something potentially staining, like tea or coffee or hot chocolate. I think this makes such a huuuuuge difference. I started doing it when I first used whitestrips because I was like, um, if I have tea today won't that erase all the good I'm doing? So it basically became a habit and I do it all the time now.

/tldr

My dentist told me when I was like 11 that I had naturally yellow teeth. Ugh. I tried the Crest strips and they actually made my teeth super sensitive. It is such a pain in the ass and I'm so embarrassed.

Never had braces, or cavities, and very little plaque buildup when I go for a cleaning (even if I missed a year due to no insurance) and YET still yellow. Boo!

put hydrogen peroxide on a q-tip rub it on your teeth and leave it on for 30 seconds, then rinse.

Apparently activated charcoal is pretty awesome for whitening teeth, also Google "oil pulling".

Why couldn't you get it fixed? I had one and they had to cut out a bit of flesh but they closed it.

gaps are qt most of the time tho

i had one from like kindergarten till high school when my wisdom teeth came in

I love her gap. I had a gap and an overbite and I got the gap closed with braces. Still have the overbite, but I embraced it.

Me too, except there gaps all around the front of my top row. I never wanted braces but I have bonding around my teeth to close the gaps. Look pretty good but they chip every couple years and I have to get them touched up.

My sister had a gap and she fixed it with bonding I believe.

gaps are so qt imo

I was so bummed when I saw pattie boyd had hers fixed

I think they look great. They were a beauty standard in the Middle Ages, yeah?

Same here. I could have gotten braces, but the insurance wouldn't cover it since it was cosmetic.

I've got a gap but it runs in my family on my dad's side so I've grown attached to it. I'll never get it fixed. I have one, as do both of my older sisters, my dad, all of my aunts and uncles on my dad's side, and most of my cousins (one did get hers fixed though- we all thought she was odd for doing it. lol). It's basically the only way you can tell my sisters and I are related because we somehow look nothing alike.

My mom always complains about feeling left out because she doesn't have a gap.

I don't know if this is actually statistically true or not but it seems like gaps are pretty common in Black families (such as mine) and less so in families of other races. I always found that interesting.

I've got an overbite that wasn't taken care of when I was a kid, and a gap. I want to do something about the overbite, but the gap doesn't bother me. It's pretty small, and I lucked out, because my dad had a gap you could drive a truck through before he got it closed.

Can't say I blame you. They hurt, they're expensive, and then when you finally get them off, you're damned to an eternity of wearing a retainer.

But people are so weird about teeth. I rarely notice unless they're super jacked up. That said, I'm self-conscious about the crowding in my lower row.

i don't even have really crooked teeth, but idg the whole straight, white teeth obsession. i had this wonderful old-school dentist who thought this obsession was crap as well, but he retired. >:(

That literally happened to me on Tuesday. I ended up having to get 4 shots in the same place to fully numb me

novacaine's useless for me whenever i've gotten fillings, the sensitivity is unbearable

I fucking hate the sound the shot makes when it finds and hits the nerve
it just feels all sorts of wrong

i don't get anything when i get fillings :/

YESSSS

i get put to sleep for dat shit omg

This always happens to me so I make sure they nearly overdose me

that's happened to me before. worst

get laughing gas. last time i went, they gave me extra numbing + laughing gas and i had the time of my life.

pfffff, I always had the numbing cream, nocovaine, and nitrous for everything. Had lots of teeth pulled when I was younger and cavities. I was naughty and always told them I couldn't feel the nitrous very well so they'd keep turning it up, one time it was so high that I was seeing glow in the dark and the dentist's voice was super low and slow. I looovvveeedd it but that was probably dangerous as hell.

i have never had a cavity and comments like this are what put the fear of god in me and make me get out of bed and floss

I've had 2 fillings and the dentist didn't give me any novacaine either time. Admittedly, they were small, but still. YES I CAN FEEL YOU DRILLING INTO MY TOOTH AND NO IT DOESNT FEEL THAT GOOD.

Even more fun is realizing the numbness has started to go during a wisdom tooth extraction.

Between that and the crunching and the pulling, I begged Jesus to take all the wheels.

they don't use novocaine anymore but yeah. make sure they put a lot more topical on before the next injection if it wears off.

For my first ever filling, the dentist (he was 200 years old), told me it would be more painful to have the shot than it would be to have the filling. I took his word, freaking out, and had the filling without Novocaine.
I was crying during the filling. His response? "oh, don't be a baby!". I never went back to him.

what really makes me die getting a filling is the SMELL of the drilling, makes me want to die every time

I fucking wish. I've never met anyone who had/has teeth like I did before braces. My front teeth were literally moving outwards, like when I rested my mouth it was just open.

And people wonder why 8 years later I still wear my retainers weekly.

people tell me i have perfect teeth,
and i've never had braces...so, yeah i guess haha
my mom said it was cuz my dentist growing up was progressive and would shave down my teeth so they had room to grow in? idk
i also get asked a lot if i whiten my teeth, which i never have actually;/

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I was. lol. My dentist always remarked my teeth are like glass. No need for braces, no cavities, no fillings, and they are straight and white.

People think my mom has dentures, but her teefs are just flawless. My dentist once said I have a gorgeous set of teeth while he was cleaning them. They're pretty straight, but I have an overbite.

My Mom. I have the same shape of teeth and my dentist always tells me that I have such nice teeth and that I should get my bottom row fixed. I'm too poor to get them straightened.

Neither my mom nor I have ever had a cavity, and my mom swears it's because her mom (my grandma) took calcium during all of her pregnancies, before it was a ~thing. idk if that's remotely factual, but I appreciate it if it was.

That said... my teeth were fuuuuuuuuucked before I had braces.

yes. and i'm english.

I had to have braces, and a series of retainers to fix an underbite. But I have pointy canines and I like them. :D

Mine were overcrowded AND I had snaggleteeth. Omg I looked like a fuckin sabertooth tiger.

crest white strips premium or professional

I don't see why she got them done at all

Her teeth were fine before. The veneers were way too big for her face.

ikr horse teeth are not qt

That's an old picture. She got them adjusted and they're not that big anymore.

Iirc, she broke her teeth. But idk, I read about it years ago.

In elementary and middle school there was this girl who always told me she wished she had glasses, she wished she had my (messy) handwriting, she really really wanted braces. Even though she was my friend I hated her for it hahaha.

you're crazy

Trust me, you didn't.

I kind of felt the same way. Now I see it as a good thing and my parents were able to save thousands of dollars because my sisters and I never needed braces.

I wanted braces when I was younger too. I also wanted to break a limb, wear a cast and have people sign it but thankfully that never happened. *knocks on wood*

This is me! I've always wanted braces, but now I'm too old to get them.

trust me, you didn't miss out. the second i left my orthodontist's office after getting my braces on, a bracket popped off when I was in the damn elevator but I had to come back the next day to get it fixed since he had just closed. brackets popping off was a regular occurrence and getting my braces tightened was not fun.

omg, same here. I begged my dentist many, many times and he always looked at me like I was nuts. The oral surgeon who removed wisdom teeth asked me if I've had braces bc my teeth look like I had them apparently. Suppose that was some sort of compliment. I'm still bitter.

Do you like pain? If you do, you surely missed on some nagging, headache & vomit inducing monthly pain, for sure ;)

I always felt that way about glasses. I'd leave the yearly eye checkups at school disappointed with my 20/20 vision. I wanted those glasses, dammit

lol i did the same thing too. then my mom didn't believe me when i said i needed glasses but i actually did.

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My sister's friend lost a ton of weight when she got braces because she couldn't eat anything. I begged my parents for braces because of that. Sadly they did not have the same magical effect on me lol

Yeah her teeth looked fine?! IDK why someone would want really long teeth like that...

She chipped her tooth on her microphone during a concert which was why she got the veneers. She had them done another time and they're nowhere near as big as in this picture anymore

iirc, she chipped one of her front teeth on a microphone then got veneers.

Ugh I wish I had a gap instead of overlapping teeth that stuck out. I wish I had neither but I'd rather have had a gap tbqh, a lot of people look so cute with gaps imo :x

I had a big gap between my teeth when I was a kid and my kindergarten teacher called me Walrus.

I don't like open-mouth smiling on me because it looks so insincere.

The blinding white thing reminded meow when I was watching Django and being so distracted by how white and perfect everyone's teeth were, even when they were dressed in rags.

IA! Just white teeth are fine, but glowing white is creepy and looks so scary in photos!!

reminds me off

I think "perfect teeth" are extremely overrated anyway. I had braces and now that my teeth are relatively straight, there's really nothing else I would do to change them. They're not really white, I do have a chipped tooth, etc, but I think imperfections are charming.

I feel self-conscious about open-mouthed smiling because my teeth are pretty huge... /: