For a 50+ year old woman I’d say she looks pretty stunning, frankly. But then, I’ve always been a sucker for tall, intelligent, just slightly gawky looking women with a 5000 lumen smile.
A mild overbite is attractive because it makes the upper lip tend to protrude forward and up, as if just ready to form a smile. No mystery about that; people who smile are more attractive to other people. One might attribute a theoretical advantage in performing fellatio as suggested by alice_in_wonderland’s crass friend, but unless you’re a Georgia redneck with hinged front teeth I doubt it makes any practical difference.
I dunno, but I always find people who look like they could play the trumpet more attractive.
I also think you’d be surprised at how unobvious an underbite is. I know a girl who had jaw surgery to fix an underbite, and her face became very, very square looking. She was much more attractive earlier. I hope she did it for other than cosmetic reasons.
The precocious, and sexy little, french, scamp from Pulp fiction with a “Pooch Belly”. She sorta pings all my valves with her pooch belly, dark hair, unusual upside down triangle lips, small mouth, square jaw and overbite… all enough fertile imperfections and a sexual symmetry that really attract me. Maybe her mouth reminds me of a Vagina.
I find a slight overbite pretty damn sexy. The way it makes the upper lip stick out a bit just seems like an invitation for smiles and kisses and doing slightly obscene things with mouths.
I think we’re being a bit fluid with the definition. Geena Davis I can see… Beverly d’Angelo is another. Naomi Watts and Jennifer Connelly just seem to have large front teeth. Isabella Rosselini? Well, it’s an “overbite” in the sense that it’s not an underbite, but I wouldn’t have singled her out…
Top and bottom teeth resting right on top of each other would technically be an underbite. Your average overbite isn’t always noticeable from a front view, but it does usually mean the upper lip protrudes more and the front teeth are more visible and look larger. If you look at a moderate to severe overbite from the side or underneath when the molars are together and the lips are open, you can sometimes see the gap.
Here is my ‘severe’ (according to the last dentist I went to) overbite. As you can see it’s hardly an obvious deformity if you have otherwise straight and non-gappy teeth (as most celebs with overbites do). It’s rare you ever catch a glimpse of my bottom teeth since they are father back in my mouth, unless I make an effort like I did for the pictures.
My boyfriend does indeed find overbites attractive, it’s always been something he’s noticed in women. I often think actresses and models who have them are particularly cute as well - it gives a kind of innocent and playful look to their face somehow.
As for celebs with overbites, Eva Mendes has a pretty big one.
Actually an overbite and a weak chin aren’t related at all. One is strictly an upper jaw (usually teeth alone) issue, the other a lower jaw (not involving teeth) issue. All it means when someone has an ‘overbite’ is that the upper teeth protrude outwards far enough that there is a space between the lower and upper front teeth. In a correct ‘bite’ the lower teeth fit right behind the upper.
They aren’t supposed to, even. They’re supposed to be just in front. Your front teeth are generally longer than your back teeth. If they went down right on top of each other, you couldn’t use your grinding teeth.
My teeth are just shy of doing this. I have to stretch my bottom jaw to use my molars. That’s why I have an underbite, and why I can have jaw problems with it. But, seeing as I don’t walk around with my teeth clenched, you’d never know.
Asa graphic designer, I notice the Dairy Queen Lips has an overbite. Nothing more prejudicial to add, other than the local Dairy Queen Rulez… the franchised Dairyqueen suckz.
One of my favorite porn actresses, Justine Joli, has a pretty serious overbite. (No links or anything, for obvious reasons. The close-up photos that capture her smile also tend to capture other interesting things.) I think it’s one of the quirks that makes her seriously cute; I first ran across her when she was doing “glamour” modeling under the name Swan, and it was her smile that got me hooked.
I think this is accurate in regards to the norm of how teeth fit together. But a true underbite would be prognathous. That is, the lower jaw protruding to the point where it would be obvious.
If you google “Hapsburg/ Habsburg jaw” you can see examples.
No, most people have a normal bite or a slight overbite. In a perfect ‘bite’ the top teeth come down in front of the bottom teeth but everything fits closely together. From the molars to the front teeth, top and bottom should meet evenly and touch each other. An overbite is when the top teeth aren’t properly aligned with the bottom, creating an empty space between the top and bottom front teeth and causing the top teeth to protrude from the mouth.
I met a 21 year old housewife who got married to the guy in the McMansion across the way, she had a severe overbite. If being rich, 21, and having protruding top teeth is supposed to make a woman look “sexy”, it was sadly the opposite in this case. It made her look like a foolish rabbit, and she actually WAS as dumb as a rock. (leaving out long story of her idiocy here.) I disliked her immensely and they finally moved away. Mr. Sali called her “Nibbles”, but not to her face!
Napolean Dynamite had an overbite in the movie, does anyone think it added to his attractiveness? No? Same with her.
