"Japanese girls...are having their teeth unstraightened. The procedure, called ''Yaeba'' involves fitting removable caps to ordinary, straight teeth for a deliberately juvenile look. Some even have sharp, Dracula-like fangs slipped over their incisors.According to the London Daily Mail, "Japanese men find the 'imperfection' of young ladies’ 'snaggleteeth' smile sexually attractive because of its endearing 'childlike' quality. [And] men find them more approachable than women with perfect 'picket-fence teeth'.""
Source: Staying on the cutting edge
May 21, 2013
By Richard Hughes
The AGE newspaper