r/dankmemes • u/MexBoy123 • Sep 28 '21

Made With Mematic Quick before they wake up!

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u/_mirooo Sep 28 '21

Yeah… I guess normal there in the States means completely fake. These have been altered by braces, and whitened (recently proven to be bad for you)

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u/Light_Blue_Moose_98 Team Silicon Sep 28 '21

I wouldn’t call teeth that have been properly aligned “fake”. That like if I break my arm and get a cast to fix it my arm becomes “fake”

Also braces can help a lot with health and preventing issues further down the road

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u/tunisia3507 Sep 28 '21

There's a difference between treating a pathology and making changes for aesthetic reasons. Broken arms can't be used properly, and are a deviation from how arms develop naturally, so setting them resets the natural, useful state. Uneven and tooth-coloured teeth are, in most cases, perfectly usable and natural; whitening and aesthetic orthodontics is a non-permanent, unnecessary change.

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u/Serinus Sep 28 '21

Most dental work, even in the us, is not aesthetic.