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Drilling Into the Painful Cavities of Celebrity ToothTok


Dentists online have figured out that one way to go viral is by forensically explaining your favorite famous person’s teeth.

Most of the videos by Dr. Sara Hahn, a dentist in California, are just a series of photos of celebrities — actual stars like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, but also people like golfer Scottie Scheffler and a cast member from Love Is Blind: Sweden — as she calculates exactly when they got veneers. Sara Mercier(41,400 followers), a myofunctional airway specialist and orofacial myologist — her work involves diagnosing and correcting weak facial and jaw muscles — is not the only myology expert on TikTok, but she seems to be the only one who expounds on the details of her profession using celebrities as examples. In her videos, she says that Olivia Rodrigo “looks like she has a really deficient mandible”; Sydney Sweeney, with her visible gums and probable lip tie, is “a big oof myofunctionally.” Elon Musk, turns out, has a narrow maxilla, leading to “trout mouth,” and Adam Driver is “an … interesting myofunctional character” with an asymmetrical chin.

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