Did Kate get a $15,000 mouth makeover?
Used on children-and possibly during the Spanish Inquisition-the torture of braces isn't worth repeating unless you're joining the English monarch. So that may explain why Kate Middleton is said to have gotten a mouth makeover. The Daily Mail reports her smile became glossier in anticipation of her engagement thanks to whitening treatments and super high-tech braces. She already has fairly decent teeth and suffered through her twelfth year with a mouth full of metal.
For most of us, perfect teeth seem like a throwback to the era of "Pearl Harbor" (the Michael Bay movie, that is). But Kate's mouth can single-handledly salvage an entire country's reputation for bad teeth. So to defend England's honor, she reportedly went for her second round of braces. These, however, are far more high-tech and expensive than the original prototype. In addition to whitening, Kate got lingual braces which line up along the back of your teeth so they're actually invisible (not like those "clear" braces we were sold a fake bill of goods on in the '90s). The treatment can cost up to $15,000 and is vetted by William himself who wore them for 10 years, poor thing.
But Kate's dental work was likely short and sweet. She's said to have gone to Dr. Didier Fillion, a London-based dental specialist famous for developing 3D technology that places the braces so precisely it cuts treatment time down by three to four months. Where was this man when we were in 7th grade?
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