Japanese women pay hundreds of dollars to turn perfectly straight teeth crooked to attract men
In many Western countries, crooked teeth are seen as imperfections and most people consider a straight set of pearly whites ideal.
The story is slightly different in Japan, where “yaeba,” or snaggletooth, are considered cute; with some men finding the imperfect smile they form endearingly childlike and attractive.
Okay, so maybe “snaggletooth” is an unfair translation. “Yaeba” literally means “multilayered” or “double” tooth, and describes the fanged look achieved when molars crowd the canines and push them forward. It’s not a serious dental deformity, but it’s certainly enough to get you picked on at school in some countries.
Thanks to the popularity of pop-idol group AKB48′s Tomomi Itano and other celebrities sporting a pair of rogue chompers of their own, “yaeba” has turned into a cosmetic craze in recent years, with Japanese women of all ages flocking to dental clinics to have temporary or permanent artificial canines, called “tsuke-yaeba,” glued to their teeth. Click below for full story -
8 Comments
Disgusting! Who wants crooked teeth!
Thats so not hot!
How on earth would anyone be attracted to a girl with aweful teeth like that
Must be every dentists dream - people coming to them so that they can have their teeth messed up!
This surely has to be made up. Why would girls want to have bad teeth? Most people pay 1000s to have straight white teeth!
When you look at all the related articles you realise that japenese people are very very strange
Not sure why anyone would want to do this to themselves
I have a feeling the newspaper that reported on this story has fabricated the truth quite a bit.