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I routinely Photoshop out zits, blemishes, etc. from snapshots of family and friends. However, when my son had braces, there was not much I could do about it. What I really could have done with, and what would still be useful for all my British friends, is a clipart library of a perfect set of teeth,
taken from every conceivable angle.
Then it would be a simple process of picking the correct angle, erasing the parts covered by the lips, correcting for any color cast in the photograph, and dropping them in.
Now even Uncle Ernie can have a (digital) smile like this!
http://www.cosmetic...m/images/smile1.jpg
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comments about british teeth
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manipulate the lips pursed together? |
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my dad went through hell deciding whether or not to buy school pics of me minus front teeth. they bought them :) |
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If you can take out zits, blemishes etc., why couldn't you photoshop out your son's braces? |
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mfy: if I could do that, I could draw the portraits myself and not rely on a camera. |
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Instead, people should get good, removeable fake teeth to wear at photo sessions. After all, pictures prevail, while your real, crooked teeth will eventually fall off. |
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[DrCurry]: I think [his face your] just meant that for the traditional 'train track' braces you could simply colour on top of them - thats not much harder than doing zits. |
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[your face mine]: If teeth are out of place then you would have to be really good with photoshop, redrawing parts of the teeth to put them in the right place. In this case, 'off the shelf' clipart would be a big help. |
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How often do you have to replace braces in photos? If it comes up often enough to create this, it would be worth it for you to take the time to get good at 'shopping them out. |
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//clipart library of a perfect set of teeth//
You also need lighting effects, as well as jaw positions (laughing w/mouth ajar). It could be a plug-in that works with your favorite photo software, allowing you to accurately place, color, and shade the teeth. Even form and position individual teeth, for photos of British royalty. |
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I would never have thought of editing braces out of a photo. As much as mine are costing, I'd like to have as many mementos of them as possible. |
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Indeed, enhance them rather than cover them up! Make them look like they're made of gold or something. |
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is everyone going to leave the obvious brit (bad teeth) stereotype alone on this one? "...and what would still be useful for all my brittish friends" |
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I was about to say, Marymalibu.
The proper thing, to show your lad's gene pool properly, would be to photoshop your and/or your wife's teeth into his portrait. Assuming you still have yours. |
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[Pericles] Instead of removable false teeth, howabout a laminated colour photo of teeth stuck in the mouth? In a group picture, you'd never know the difference! |
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marymalibu: that's an in-joke, if you know who's British on this site. |
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We don't know why, but we find this idea strangely disturbing. While we can see the rationale behind it, and on the surface it seems harmless enough, we can't help but think that it's just going to feed the sick fantasies of tooth fetishists. |
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Does anyone know if there are such things as tooth fetishists ? We're not sure if we even want to know the answer to that question ..... |
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An alternative. Simply get everybody to suck on an orange segment as they smile. That way, everybody's smile is orange. |
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DrCurry can do this with a camera and a volunteer that has good choppers. Camera on tripod with flat lighting. Sit volunteer in a chair and rotate a bit at a time and take many pictures. Make your own teeth library. |
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... followed by furious editing. |
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Other options..."lip extensions"? Hmmm, fake smile white-out? |
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//..my British friends..//
//..american...culturally and fashionably identical teeth.//
(touche) |
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//is everyone going to leave the obvious brit (bad teeth) stereotype alone on this one? "...and what would still be useful for all my brittish friends"// |
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This spurred me to investigate, and it seems that british teeth are on average less white and less regular, but healthier.
Americans get more cosmetic work done, while british dentistry is primarily about dental health. |
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sources - I looked at a few articles, an enormous page of comments, and found some stats. |
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The statistic is "average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth at age 12", from the OECD.
In 2004, which is the last year for which values are available for both US and UK, they were 1.3 and 0.7 respectively. They were about on par in the early 90's, with the UK value on a steeper downwards trajectory (and was worse than USA in the 80's, but there is no earlier data for the USA). |
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The comments(page linked) are fascinating - they vary greatly in tone. But it seems to me that a significant proportion of those saying british teeth are worse are essentially judging whiteness. Since whitening teeth can make them unnaturally white (but no healthier), I think American perception of teeth is basically locked in an arms-race for whiteness.
I wonder whether it's possible to use the stuff which is put in washing powder to make clothes 'whiter than white' (which converts UV to visible light) on teeth. |
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(disclaimer - I am british, and my teeth are reasonably healthy but a bit crooked and yellow. Canalising slightly at the front. I have one small filling - required because apparently I had been brushing too hard. Oh, and I had to have all of my wisdom teeth removed because they were buggering off in the wrong direction, crunkling up the other teeth and not emerging at all.) |
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The big difference between British teeth and that of those
in the colonial backwater lies in their respective abilities to
form the spoken word. With American teeth, due to many
decades of the sucking and chewing of rotten gm chemical
laden and sugar saturated food, the jaws have
simultaneously slackened and deformed. The teeth, being
opportunistic, have naturally migrated and expanded to fill
the resulting contorted new spaces. These new mouth
interiors severely limit the way words are formed, causing
at least 75% of the English language to be either
inaccessible or when attempted to emerge as a type of
primeval chomping gibberish. The good news is that time
spend in Blighty, being fed on a diet of fish, chips and
mushy peas and normality is soon restored. |
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//I had to have all of my wisdom teeth removed // That must have been an ordeal. I saw what was involved and decided to have someone else's wisdom teeth removed instead. It was much less painful. |
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At my request, all of my other teeth were removed, except
the wisdom teeth,
as they were impacted and needed more room. I had lego
implants installed to replace the missing molars. They're
not great for eating, but I can easily climb up the side of
the giant lego giraffe in Berlin, using nothing more than my
teeth. |
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////I had to have all of my wisdom teeth removed////
//That must have been an ordeal.// |
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It wasn't so bad in itself because it was under general anaesthetic. Felt nowt. |
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... well they wanted an early start and there is some prep, so I spent the night beforehand in the ward. There was a room with a TV, but no TV guide. I switched it on, flicked through the channels and saw, without warning, a closeup of someone's impacted wisdom teeth being removed, complete with hammers, chisels and prying bar.
I decided it was a good thing I'm quite thick-skinned, turned it off and went to bed.
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When I woke up after the operation, I thought I was really thirsty - the roof of my mouth was so dry. But they won't let you drink for an hour.
But when I eventually did get some water, I realised I wasn't thirsty, my mouth was just caked, centimeters deep with congealed blood. So I scooped it out with some tissue and vomited up the rest.
Then a bit of rest and recuperation and I was fine. |
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When I got mine out, I woke up in the recovery room,
spent maybe half an hour there under observation, and
then my mom took me home. I only used about half of
the crazy-strong Tylenol pills they gave me over the next
few days. Minimal bleeding. The second-worst part was
feeling the holes in my gums with my tongue. The worst
was the cotton packings. |
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[marymalibu] got her account back in February of 2003, annotated on a grand total of nine ideas, but never posted any of her own. The username does have some artifacts on instagram and myspace. |
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Where is the great DrCurry? |
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There are a couple of Dr. Currys in San Diego, and a Spanish movie of the same name from 1997. |
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So, not a very thin, pixel display, mouth guard. |
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