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What is pretty and desirable is a subjective thing. Experiencing beauty is one of those things that is very hard to link to objective, physical appearances or qualities, although some guidelines will always exist. In the case of teeth, most patients simply say they “just want a pretty smile”. Yes, but what if after having your teeth aligned, or whitened, or are getting a complete smile makeover, you realize that the things that you asked for did not get rid of the annoying quality, shape size, etc of your teeth? Or what if you and your dentist have a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the nature of beauty, which becomes apparent once the procedures are done and you are not happy with them?

Many of us have pondered the question: why do predators in the wild have such glaring white, beautiful teeth? They chew dozens of bones and eat pounds of meat each day, yet you never see any broken teeth, or any dull ones, either. This fills us with envy! How can this be?

A new study published by the American Dental Association seems to have found a correlation between getting dental anaesthetic at an early age and the retardation of the growth of wisdom teeth. The study has a fairly large sample size, and evidence seems to be fairly conclusive.