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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 don't like either look!

I did braces as an adult, no extractions, no filing, no expander. It straightened my teeth out and partially but didn't fully correct my overbite, which was fine with me. I spoke to 5 orthodontists before finding one who would work with me. A lot of orthodontists are quacks who will try to convince you that if you don't do their full plan (which unsurprisingly requires the most work and costs the most money) somehow it will ruin your life. But as an adult who had been living with some crooked teeth and an overbite for decades, I knew that wasn't the case.

I don't need jaw surgery. My orthodontia didn't change the shape of my head. I have a symmetrical smile with straight teeth, and straightening them also made dental care easier (flossing even teeth is just more effective). But my mouth isn't "perfect" which is fine because I'm a human being, not a mannequin. Don't let this greedy jerks talk you into essentially torturing your child to create some kind of ideal mouth and dentition that your kid wasn't born with. I was looking for a good natural bite that was comfortable and effective, and some aesthetic improvement so I wouldn't be self-conscious about my teeth in photos. That's all most people need.[/quote]

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