Did you know?

For Ben Affleck's starring role in the 1998 film Armageddon, director Michael Bay's concern for Ben Affleck's small, dark, unevenly spaced teeth resulted in a $20,000 smile makeover prior to filming. The Armadillo vehicle was $1 million ($150,00 for the miniature), $75,000 for the nuclear bomb, $1 million for spacesuits...$140 million total budget, whew!

What a smile! Great looking teeth but whoops...a little bit of a red line along the gums - keeping them healthy is more important than keeping them nice so brush those gumlines and hug them teeth with the floss!

Note: besides oral hygiene reasons, gum inflammation around the front teeth can be a sign of breathing through our mouth at night. Or, as in Ben Affleck's case with either veneers or full crowns, he may be having an allergic reaction to the materials of the new teeth, or the new are teeth sticking too far under the gums creating a foreign body type reaction in the gums (biologic width violation for the nerds out there).