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Or the use of teeth in fiction.

Most of the time, you get Hollywood Teeth- everybody has [[Eternally Pearly-White Teeth|lovely straight pearly whites]], even where this is unlikely (more on the lack of orthodontics front than access to sweets).

This is occasionally subverted for realism's sake: in the Broadway version of ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'', the characters have horrible teeth, which makes sense since most of them are, well, poor.

However, teeth can have other connotations.
* Missing teeth can be seen on roguish or villainous sort of characters, like [[Oliver Twist|Fagin]].
** Or, conversely, on cute little kids who are losing their baby teeth.
** Or as a comedic effect.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampireth]] have [[Fang Thpeak|fangth]].
* Someone's teeth may shatter in a cartoon situation.
* [[British Teeth]] - Yellowing, busted piano keys may best describe the teeth of the British if this trope is to be believed.
* [[Yellow Peril]]: Villainous Asians have crooked teeth.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]] may express a character's hyperactivity.

Toothy Tropes and Idioms:
* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]
* [[Vagina Dentata]] (kind of... don't think about it too long.)

This is a [[Super-Trope]] to all other tooth-related tropes; please put all examples on the relevant subtropes' pages.

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