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Yaeba Smiles - Japanese Trends For Artificial Fangs

A new fashion has women paying to have their straight teeth disarranged. Unlike Western countries, Japan has never looked down on “yaeba,” or a snaggletooth, instead finding a less-than-perfect smile cute and endearing.

“Yaeba teeth” have become more and more trendy in Japan recently. If this term is new to you, in Japanese, the word yaeba means ‘double tooth’, and it describes the fang-y, pushed-out incisors look that usually results from bunched or crowded teeth. So why have misaligned teeth become trendy? The crooked, fang-like yaeba teeth are said to make girls seem more approachable; the imperfection is considered desirable because it makes a girl appear more endearing and cute.

Now, thanks to the popularity of celebrities sporting a double tooth, this natural quirk has turned into a cosmetic craze. Over the past few years, women of all ages have been flocking to dental clinics to have an artificial tooth attached.

Yaeba Smiles
Yaeba Teeth
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.

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.

Twenty-two-year-old Sana Hashimoto is a bit young for dentures, but that didn’t stop the Tokyo college student from making a trip to the dentist for Japan’s latest fashion fad—an artificial, crooked tooth.

Unlike Western countries, Japan has never looked down on “yaeba,” or a snaggletooth, instead finding a less-than-perfect smile cute and endearing. Now, thanks to the popularity of celebrities sporting a double tooth, this natural quirk has turned into a cosmetic craze.

Over the past few years, women of all ages have been flocking to dental clinics to have an artificial tooth attached. “Like false eyelashes, a crooked tooth is part of a new fad,” said Hashimoto, who had a false tooth attached in June. “I know it’s better to have straight teeth, but it’s boring to see everyone with them. So I decided to express my individuality with a fang.”



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