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Jerry Dammers' teeth...
Posted by the_saint on 26 March 2010 - 6:11pm.
Here's a question for the Massive: what the heck happened to Jerry Dammers' teeth? He looks - at least in oral terms - like some boozy old tramp who's rotted his front end with too much sugary alcohol, or else a rabid speed freak grinding down the wrong side of chemically accelerated dental dissolve. Yet, as soon as he opens his mouth, he's clearly a man of relative health...
Has Jerry Dammers got the worst teeth in Pop? He certainly makes Joe Strummer look handsome; however, I suspect Head Pogue McGowan must hold the golden toothbrush-shaped trophy for molar malevolence. But as he's undead, does he actually count?
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Think it was a school thing
The rumour around King Henry VIII school Coventry, 78-79-ish was they were punched out by a former fellow sixth former at a party.
I remember him gurning
and bopping his gap toothed way through Free Nelson Mandela on TOTP back in't
it'll be on YaChoob!
Well that's...
...put me right off me tea
Shane, as of last year,
is no longer the toothless wonder we all knew and loved:
Knowing me Alan Partidge, knowing you Shane McGowan,...
..aaaah-haaa!
Is it me or...
... does that photo of Shane look just a little like kd lang with a 5 o'clock shadow?
Anyway, I think Shane's had his teeth done. I'm sure I saw a photo of him not so long ago with nice new, straight, white choppers.
View from the surgery..
Jerry Dammers is missing three front teeth, probably as a result of blunt trauma in his youth which would tie in with reginabsmooth's point. The rest of the teeth and gums look healthy enough. He appears to have had a gold veneer fitted to his upper right canine to give himself a gangsta flash. No neglect, not a wreck, he's just decided or forgotten not to wear the prosthesis which normally fills the gap.
Shane, however, was and is the polar opposite with a smile like a panful of burnt chips. Whoever made those teeth for him must have struggled. One of the standard tests when fitting dentures is to test the phonics.
"Run through the days of the week, please, Mr McGowan"
"Maaaagghh.. Choosssyy.. Wannny.."
"Buggeration. Still not right. Same as the other twenty times we tried them in. I'll have to send them back to the technician again for more adjustments.."
Mark E. Smith also ended up minus his laughing-gear at an early age, presumably through neglect. Because of an administrative error, he was fitted with false teeth belonging to someone else. I say that. I hope he was. It's the only excuse I can think of for the bloody awful noises he makes.
Dame David Bowie's own teeth were pretty ropey and seemed to be a natural shade of green. So he seemingly had them all taken out and replaced with a horrendous prosthesis apparently constructed from toilet-bowl porcelain. But he seems happy with it.
One of my boys
has just had his report from the orthadontist. 2 impacted and some missing, he needs an op to expose them and then braces. Apparently it's such a good case he's going to use my lads x-rays for lectures. If I was near the South Coast I'd bring him in for a check up. Still he's 14 so hopefully it will be all done nicely before he leaves school.
Way out of my league, Dave..
That's Big Boys stuff, that is.
Mere baguatelle for them, though. Bilateral impacted canines? Pah. Expect your son to have a smile like a Little Nipper mousetrap for a couple of years, thereafter provide him with a big shitty stick with which to beat off the girlies. He'll thank you. Eventually.
The Word
a magazine, a podcast, a dental check up
LOL
Undead?
No. He's on twitter:
http://twitter.com/Shane_MacGowan
Just out of curiosity, Lenny...
...What is the difference between a dentist and an orthodontist? Is this a Doctor/Surgeon type relationship, or a completely different art? Does the former have to be the latter first?
I'd also like to take the opportunity to apologise to a Mr Catcheside of Bath, who fitted my braces when I was 12 or so. I have a very poor/good gag reflex, and when he shoved the mould into my gob to immortalise my upper palette in plaster de Paris, I vomited all over his face.
Nearly 30 years on, I can still see him wiping his specs and saying "oh dear"
Incidentally, getting a orthodontic work here in the States often warrants a Facebook post along the lines of "Hooray, Esmerelda was finally accepted for braces!". Mine hurt like a mother flipper, and were removed the second I left Mr Catcheside's rather nice surgery located in the Circle in Bath. I'd go back a few months later and he'd be pleased with how they were progressing...
Is it just a Mediterranean thing?
As in Greek Orthodontist? :-)
Orthodontics.
A subspeciality concerned with the straightening-out of crooked teeth. You train as a dentist first then spend another couple of years doing the orthodontic training. Rarely do normal dentists do any orthodontics. Other subspecilities: Endodontics - root fillings and that. Periodontics - treatment of gum problems. Paedodontics - kiddy teeth. Prosthodontics - false teeth. Most regular dentists do all of these things routinely, but will refer patients to a specialist if it's a tricky case. Or they don't like the patient.