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My Favorite Teeth
Ten behind-the-scenes creators on how some of film and TV’s scariest, silliest, and most iconic chompers came to be.
Many of these same steps are used by dental professionals when crafting retainers, braces, and dentures, which is why many who work in this field have specialized training; for example, vacuum-formed plastic pieces, referred to by pros as vacu-forms, are similar to Invisalign or mouth guards. In the absurdist world of creator and showrunner Meredith Scardino’s Girls5eva, anything is possible: a girls’ group making a resurgence after decades of irrelevance, a machine in a school cafeteria that turns a whole chicken into perfectly formed nuggets, and a fox-to-human teeth transplant Girls5eva member and dentist Gloria (Paula Pell) performs to help her new friend Gray Holland (Thomas Doherty), the world’s biggest pop star, fake his own death, escape fame, and start a new life freaking people out at remote open mics. A character becomes iconic when a generic Halloween store costume description like “British spy teeth” immediately conjures an image in your mind, and Gary Archer knows Austin Powers will be his legacy.
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