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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the palate expanders. Every braces-wearing Gen Alpha kid got a palate expander, sometimes for years, which creates a Wallace & Gromit smile (Google it). Orthodontists push kids palates so far out that they all have this same weird cartoon smile when the braces come off.[/quote]

+1. Read the whole thread waiting for someone to say this. The palate expanders cause that look with the 4-6 front teeth straight across not curved around. It's hard to find an image of it (what Orthodontist would post photos like that?) but I know exactly what OP means. It's everywhere in tweens/teens today. [/quote]
My kid had a palate expander at 7 yo and is now 9 yo, and hasn't yet had braces and does have this look.  Her smile looks wide and flat (while still being a bit crooked pre-braces).  She needed the expander to make room in a very crowded mouth, but it did change her appearance.  She'll do braces once her baby teeth are out.[/quote]

I have to say a wide smile with lots of teeth is better than the options we had a gen x where they just pulled teeth and put on braces and we ended up with smaller mouth/witchy mouth[/quote]

I'm the PP whose kid had a removable expander. Maybe the ortho did something different than others, but her mouth doesn't look overwide now (though it is over gappy until more big teeth come in). It now just fits her face where before it was - as you say PP - "witchy" and overly pinched in the jaw area.

Maybe it's kid dependent whether the big expansion works?[/quote]

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