She looked fine before, in my opinion, but it's excruciating not to fit in, to be teased. I was born with a condition called Amelogenesis imperfecta ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002545/ ) Before I had adult teeth, things were OK, but once my adult teeth came in they were yellowish, ridged and deformed. I tried brushing my teeth 8 times a day to get kids to stop teasing me. The only fix for this is to put crowns or veneers on all your teeth. And no way any dental insurance will pay for it.
If someone had offered to pay the $15,000-$20,000 to have all my teeth capped/veneered at 14, I would have jumped on it in a heart beat - and I would have been heartbreakingly thrilled. I would have paid any amount of money to have people stop calling me Butter Teeth. I know that you are all probably thinking that it's not the same to have crowns put on all your teeth and having your ears pinned back. But I think it is. What I went through in school has had a lifelong effect on me and it's taken me 20 years to even get SOME of the confidence I was never able to build in school. My distrust of people is sometimes a barrier to living. I do not trust them to not hurt me.
My oldest daughter inherited this condition and if I had had the money at 14 to get all her teeth crowned/veneered... I also would have done it in a heartbeat. It was harder watching her go through it than it was going through it myself.
Bullying children that look different is the issue that needs to be addressed. But its never addressed and the bullying continues. If a 14 year old wants to try to put a stop to the pain that she is experiencing by doing this... I just don't know if I can criticize her for that.
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