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Characters in nearly all media are portrayed as having pretty, white teeth, with nary a hint of any kind of tooth decay whatsoever. This makes plenty of sense in the right context -- TV personalities, for example, are heavily made-up, so of course their teeth are going to look pretty. The same goes for anyone thoroughly obsessed with personal vanity. Even stretching plausible deniability, there are perfectly normal people in the world who have never had a cavity. Expect variance in the shade of white: American media tends to go for striking white, whereas in some other places the look is considered "Yankee-ish" or even unappealing, and teeth depicted will be a more modest shade of pearly.

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  • Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
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  • Characters in nearly all media are portrayed as having pretty, white teeth, with nary a hint of any kind of tooth decay whatsoever. This makes plenty of sense in the right context -- TV personalities, for example, are heavily made-up, so of course their teeth are going to look pretty. The same goes for anyone thoroughly obsessed with personal vanity. Even stretching plausible deniability, there are perfectly normal people in the world who have never had a cavity. Expect variance in the shade of white: American media tends to go for striking white, whereas in some other places the look is considered "Yankee-ish" or even unappealing, and teeth depicted will be a more modest shade of pearly.
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  • Characters in nearly all media are portrayed as having pretty, white teeth, with nary a hint of any kind of tooth decay whatsoever. This makes plenty of sense in the right context -- TV personalities, for example, are heavily made-up, so of course their teeth are going to look pretty. The same goes for anyone thoroughly obsessed with personal vanity. Even stretching plausible deniability, there are perfectly normal people in the world who have never had a cavity. Expect variance in the shade of white: American media tends to go for striking white, whereas in some other places the look is considered "Yankee-ish" or even unappealing, and teeth depicted will be a more modest shade of pearly. At the other end of this trope is when people who really should have terrible teeth don't. In fiction, teeth never wear down through extended using of Mundane Utility. They never seem to be particularly burdened by long periods of time spent in barren environments without dental supplies. And even when the apocalypse hits, somehow, those teeth always stay nice and clean. This trope is so common that it's simply easier to list aversions, subversions and Egregious examples. It's just that common. See also British Teeth. Examples of Eternally Pearly-White Teeth include:
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