"Cracking my front ones, however, has also opened a crack in my relationship with teeth, and now I am suddenly aware, not just of their precarious vulnerability, but of their increasingly weird place in contemporary culture."
"The dental prosthetics market has tripled over the past 20 years and is expected to grow by more than 70% in the next five, driven...by young people asking for veneers that look increasingly like subtly better versions of the teeth they already have."
"Imperfect veneers aren't simply the return to nature they claim to be, they're a marker of class, an expensive evolution of artificiality."
"This prosthetics boom is happening during a serious crisis in NHS dentistry, where (due to dentists quitting and nine out of 10 practices not accepting new NHS patients) millions of people in the UK find themselves in dental desert."
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