Thank God for Cosmetic Dentistry

Decades of jokes about the British propensity for yellowed, crooked teeth have created some incredibly memorable characters on the silver screen, but thanks to cosmetic dental work, nobody needs to suffer with a mouth that looks like Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery. Most movie-goers are so adverse to crooked, aged teeth that Hollywood movies tend to shy away from accurate portrayals of the way people s teeth used to look hundreds of years ago: yellow, bent and missing. It s rare that Hollywood has featured performances with actors who have “era-appropriate” teeth, but there are a few notable examples. In 1998 s “Shakespeare in Love,” actor Geoffrey Rush, playing theater producer Philip Henslow, had a mouth full of so many crooked, yellow teeth that it looked as though one of his poor molars was about to pop out of his mouth and land right in a movie-goer s lap. Likewise, in the 1996 film “The Crucible,” actor Daniel Day-Lewis not only we

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