To think in ten years all these huge veneers and huge lips will be seriously dated?

[ToriMJ]

Eek, watching tv these days it's a sea of huge symmetrical bright white veneers.
So many of them look like they have got a teeth guard in when they are sucking on them.
Most of them just look really terrible and I dread to think what their long term teeth issues will be.
Add in the huge lips and filler faces and really it's a bit black mirror with all these faces looking the same. I know the lip filler can be dissolved but is that the same for all over the face? Will people be able to go back to how they were before once the filler blindness passes?
I've been watching old movies and the difference with natural teeth is quite something, it changes the natural shape of your face and everyone looks more individual .
Aibu or will it all look so dated in ten years and all these huge horsey veneers go out of fashion?
Or am I just getting old

Totally agree with you. I think it would be a discussion that would actually have benefit, particularly for those of us navigating social media and our children using it/being influenced by it.

These 'improvements' are hardly benign and they can lead to a series of other procedures in keeping up with the previous ones and/or whatever the latest thing is. It's incredibly worrying and very, very sad seeing young women being pushed along.

I have a personal trainer who has had lip fillers to the extent that when they are just done, I struggle sometimes to understand what she's saying. When they've 'settled' it's easier. She's a beautiful woman who didn't need improvement (in my opinion) but she's of the age where it's expected. I'm not aware of men who have lip filling done but if they do, they're tiny in number and not noticed so not critiqued.

The cost of these procedures too. It's getting to the stage where it's not really elective anymore, it's necessary upkeep.

Oh don't worry, I sneer at lower-class-looking men equally. I deplore tattoos, shirts worn as jackets over T-shirts, and ruck sacks worn with suits as if he's an overgrown schoolboy. And why on earth can't men wear proper shoes, instead of plimsolls and trainers? Men benefit hugely from dressing up a little, but they often look like cheap hobos too.

Unless you have inherited your Dad’s enormous hooter, or have a mouthful of crooked teeth, then some intervention is welcome and necessary!

Thanks @Bignanna , that makes sense.

I’ll be livid if my children ever get veneers though as we’re spending a fortune on Invisalign for DD and braces for DS. 😂

A quick plug for Invisalign-DD is nearly finished with her treatment and her teeth look amazing.

Yes the nhs will remove them I’m just not sure what they’ll look like if they do it. It’s definitely something I need to get sorted.

The bonding eventually breaks down and they break/fall off or discolour, depending upon the material used, and you'll need to replace them. Individually. Very expensive.

Would you say that you got your implants originally because of body dysmorphia? If so, surely that would influence how they reconstruct them. Would you have a smaller implant inserted? They can't just leave them in a state that leaves you back to being unhappy with them ifyswim? I'd really put forth that argument

Yes get on and do it whilst you can still get it. Wishing you all the best with it x

Oooh I did not!

Was this for teenagers of adult Dd out of interest? My Dd will definitely need braces, but I don’t think she would manage with the standard metal ones (SEN and sensory issues)

@AllTheChaos She started just before she turned 18 and she’s now 19. It usually takes 18-24 months. We’ve been really impressed with the results, she had an overbite but now her teeth are very well aligned.

We could’ve started sooner but the pandemic slowed us down tbh.

Google her, she has destroyed her face, and her body now looks grotesque!

I actually saw this woman doing injectables on her sister.
Her sister wanted cheeks and lips but she explained all that would do would throw off all the balance in her face and wouldn’t improve it in anyway.
Instead she did them in her chin only and the change was remarkable.
Im not a fan of these things but showed how they could work, randomly having big lips isn’t going make most people look better as it won’t actually suit their face.

There were a couple of customers at my previous workplace and thought if I had that nose, I would deffo had a nose job, a neat, natural looking nose. Not pencil thin like some celebs go for.

But they probably thought the same about something about you too.
E.g
If I was that fat I would use Ozempic

I think they’re so ageing, and they remove so much individuality and character from the face.

I don’t care what people do to themselves to preserve or enhance their beauty, we all live under the yoke of patriarchy and I’m not shitting on anyone who tries to make that burden a little easier by prioritising beauty. But it does make me sad to see so many women (and sometimes girls) fuck with their lovely faces and turn into a homogenous panorama of identical fillers, veneers and implants.

They all look related.

So the whole thread pretty much agrees that people look better with their natural features and should stop messing with their appearance, but that doesn't apply if you have a naturally big nose? In that case, your natural features are ugly and you should have to pay to get it fixed? (Spoken as someone who did inherit their Dad's enormous hooter.)

The NHS provide braces where the placement of teeth means oral hygiene or eating is compromised.

And I love my Asian nose, it suits my face and I think I look pretty hot.

It's very gauche to call yourself hot mate.

@AllTheChaos Invisalign are still quite painful early on and very intrusive in terms of feeling them in your mouth all the time. I would not say they represent a good alternative for people with very sensitive mouths/issues with this, you also have to have the 'pegs' which hook on the invsalign braces cemented onto your teeth, similar to normal braces, as that's how they move the teeth over time.

I'm just letting you know that as I hated my invisalign braces the first two days and thought I would never be able to tolerate them, I couldn't believe how awful they were when they looked quite comfy! I did stick with the treatment and I'm very happy with the result, but someone with sensory issues might not be able to tolerate them at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/05/when-filler-removal-goes-wrong-my-lips-and-cheeks-caved-in

Wow..worth a read for anyone considering it...

And they then moan about the cost of living!

I disagree. I think recognising your own beauty and celebrating it vocally is an act of radical rebellion in a world which makes money from telling women they’re ugly and flawed and need to fix their bodies.

She got really ill, and the NHS did wind up having to foot the bill for the repair.

The NHS should not have to deal with the results of cosmetic procedures not done on the NHS, by doing so they are propping up the rogue practitioners. If someone can find the funds to have the work done then they should also pay for their 'aftercare'.