. I think we can be sure that Jessie is not our Princess Lavender. Princess Lavender had perfect, straight, natural teeth with no cavities. Thank you for looking that up!
. I am sorry that your sister is missing, and I read your thread earlier. I will post over there. Thank you for the link, and I am glad it was the one I thought it was.So sorry it took me so long to get back to this post...Hi sloane
Do you know if it is possible to tell if a person's teeth are straight due to braces or naturally? It is unusual that she has perfect teeth. Too bad Greta or Nancy can't put that on their shows. It is so uncommon for someone to have no cavities and perfectly straight teeth in excellent condition--it would stand out!
Lion
I don't know why...it certainly wasn't genetics! But I just didn't have any straightening needed, and didn't have a cavity until my twenties. I didn't really think of it as rare. Maybe it is...you know how it is if you live with somehting, it just seems normal for you!Thank you RKnowley, for looking into this further!! That site has better pics of her teeth that are clearer, and it appears that Jessie's front teeth are not STRAIGHT across their bottoms (biting surfaces), like P. Lav's. are. And they seem bigger. Those two things, combined w/ the statement of Jessie having caps, make me agree that Jessie is probably not the match. But sometimes those sites are incorrect. I rmbr. reading through suzannec4444's posts about her missing sister, Tammy Leggert, and she said that different sites would post different things about the teeth that they never confirmed from family members.
suzannec never knew why they did that. They also listed Tammy's teeth as perfect in one site, btw.
So sorry it took me so long to get back to this post...
Well, the short answer is no, I don't personally know how to determine just by looking at the UID's teeth or their dental charts (CHARTS, not x-rays) how to determine if they had orthodontic care in their lifetime. BUT...often it is on the reports I rec'v. that a forensic odontologist has notated from THEIR exam. Usually that info. is paired w/ documentation, like, they can tell where teeth may have been pulled to allow more room for the teeth to spread out, or jaw re-alignment procedures have been completed over time to correct irregular bite patterns, etc. If one is looking at a lifetime of x-rays from a person who is missing that they are trying to compare, they can check for changes to the roots over the years.
As far as it being rare to have "perfect" straight, white teeth w/ no fillings and no orthodontic work...well, I happen to have been one of those persons until my mid-twenties!
Such seems to be the case with P. Lav. as well. They put her as closer to the lower end of the 17-22 age range, w/ great teeth.
. Happy 4th to you, too, friend:blowkiss:. I am under the impression from post 133 that Vanessa and Princess Lavender's dental's have been sent to dental forensics to be sure, but that most likely the two are not a match. In any case, I wonder when the pic with Vanessa revealing a possible over bite was taken. Since what seems to be an overbite is not extreme, and her teeth look pretty straight, I think this may have been taken after her braces were removed.
So there are other manners in which they may not match that we are not able to see or info. we are not privy to.
Hello all-
Some were asking about dentals being "symmetrical" on the left and right sides...it might have been at SKM, but I think whoever reads there, reads here as well. No, teeth are not always symmetrical from one side of the mouth to the other. Many times it appears that way, and if a person has sought dental and orthodontic care, as it sounds like Vanessa did, the goal of all the work may be to get a smile to appear that way. But, even though her teeth are straight and "pretty," P. Lavender's teeth are not identical from the left to the right sides, esp. the maxillary ones (top row). We need to keep in mind that the parts of dentals that are compared are not just what one sees from the front view - a person's smile. It is also the molars, roots, wisdom, and / or lack of all these things, and of course fillings, crowns, etc. We cannot see the backs and "insides" of these two young women's mouths!
warmly,
