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1	Or the use of teeth in fiction.
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3	Most of the time, you get Hollywood Teeth- everybody has [[EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth lovely straight pearly whites]], even where this is unlikely (more on the lack of orthodontics front than access to sweets).
4	* This is occasionally subverted for realism's sake: in the Broadway version of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the characters have horrible teeth, which makes sense since most of them are, well, poor.
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6	However, teeth can have other connotations.
7	* Missing teeth can be seen on roguish or villainous sort of characters, like [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin]].
8	** Or, conversely, on [[ChildishToothGap cute little kids who are losing their baby teeth]].
9	** Or as a comedic effect.
10	** Similarly, a gap between the two front teeth can be seen in {{Loveable Rogue}}s.
11	** Often, old people, when they are not subject to FalseTeethTomfoolery, have only a few teeth left, sometimes with at least one sticking out of the mouth for comic effect.
12	** Hockey players may be missing teeth as a result of TeethFlying during a HockeyFight.
13	* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampireth]] have [[FangThpeak fangth]].
14	* Someone's teeth may shatter in a cartoon situation.
15	* BritishTeeth - Yellowing, busted piano keys may best describe the teeth of the British if this trope is to be believed.
16	* YellowPeril: Villainous Asians have crooked teeth.
17	** Even some of the more heroic Asian characters [[AsianBuckTeeth can have buck teeth]].
18	* CuteLittleFangs may express a character's hyperactivity.
19	* [[ToothyBird Birds]] (and other animals that don't have teeth in real life) are drawn with teeth so that their mouth looks more human-like when they talk.
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21	Toothy Tropes and Idioms:
22	* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily
23	* TheToothHurts (teeth suffering as a subtrope of AnatomyAgony)
24	* VaginaDentata (kind of... don't think about it too long.)

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