Posted on 10/01/2011 7:21:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A dental salon in Tokyo’s Ginza district has become very popular with girls after it advertised a cosmetic procedure that lengthens and sharpens canines to enhance a feature Japanese call “yaeba”.
Crooked teeth are seen as imperfections in many western countries, and particularly in America, where braces are practically a God-given gift to man, but in Japan, a country where almost everything is different, they are considered cute, even adorable.
Yaeba means double tooth in Japanese, but it doesn’t describe major dental deformities, but rather the vampire-like look obtained when the two molars crowd the canines pushing them forward to create a fang effect.
According to some sources, yaeba gives girls a feline look which is apparently makes them even more attractive, while others say it’s this little imperfection that makes pretty girls look more approachable as opposed to the flawless magazine cover models of the western world.
There are many Japanese celebrities with yaeba, but instead of having it fixed with braces, they just show it off to the camera, and that only makes them more popular.
Yaeba has been of the hottest trends in Japan for years, and now a dental salon in Tokyo has decided to cash in on it by offering to give the crooked-teeth look to girls with perfect dentures. Dr. Yoko Kashiyama and her staff at the Plaisir Dental Salon, in Ginza district, perform all kinds of cosmetic procedures, but yaeba is definitely among the most popular.
Using non-permanent adhesive, she glues custom-made artificial teeth onto the natural canines to lengthen them and make them stand out.
A Japanese TV network has recently sent a reporter to the dental salon to not only report on the yaeba procedure but actually get it done herself.
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It’s not just ANY crooked teeth, no.
And the same doesn’t really hold true for guys.
Without examining the question further it was probably most prominant among members of the royal and daimyo families primarily descended from the Yakuts invasion in the 6th and 7th centuries. Anything that can suggest you are part of a former or current ruling class is always considered GOOD ~ a veritable beauty spot.
A Swedish study showed 18% of Sa'ami having some dental dysplasia ~ just about the highest level in any group on Earth.
Fascinating.
For real. I’d noticed it, and never realized what I was looking at.
Thanks.
I think I’m turning Japanese.
I think I’m turning Japanese.
I really think so.
You see a lot of that in Taiwan, except it is natural.
Hell, I'd have to put on my glasses to find my walker so I could go find my teeth. And I'm not sure I'd remember what I was looking for after I actually got stood up on my feet.
Have you seen my slippers? Or my glasses, for that matter?
/johnny
/johnny
So Jewel is really popular there? The Japanese are odd, but you gotta love them, they are, well, they are them...
Just send them to the UK!
Sorry, but I like straight teeth. The snaggletooth look is a visceral turnoff.
No lying, Hiyori was the first thing I thought of when I started reading the article.
LOL. I can relate.
women with no teeth are a step above that.
Snaggletooth:-)
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