In 2024, Depp revealed he’d altered his real-life look in a major way.
Something had to give," they said.
Part of that plan apparently includes Johnny Depp’s teeth.
Here’s how thecelebrity has totally transformed his smile.
At 25, he was a bona fide hunk with bright eyes and a big, gleaming smile.
However, when the cameras flashed, he rarely showed off his teeth.
Rather, you were more likely to see the ’80s heartthrob pose with his mouth closed.
As Depp toldRolling Stonein 1988, he had no interest in being known as a sex symbol.
“I don’t want to make a career of taking my shirt off,” he said.
The sex symbol thing never quite grew on him.
As he said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “It’s so absurd a notion.”
Looking back on a photoshoot from early on in his career, he remembered not feeling like himself.
“I had a root canal done eight years ago that’s unfinished,” he said.
“It’s like a rotten little stub.”
An unfinished root canal can lead to further issues, such as infections and abscesses.
“I like it…
I’m proud of these.
When I see people with perfect teeth, it drives me up the wall,” he said.
“Gilbert wouldn’t have the money to fix them, and he wouldn’t have cared.”
“It used to be quite a bit more.
It used to be, I’d smoke these tables.
I’d smoke the patch.
I’d smoke the gum.
So I feel good about it.”
Depp has never been one to mince words about his smoking.
“I want to have another mouth grafted onto my face to smoke more,” he quipped.
“Instead of three packs a day, I want to smoke six packs a day.”
It’s no secret that smoking issomething that can ruin a person’s smile.
They can lead to periodontal disease, which is bone loss."
Depp started taking drugs as an adolescent.
In a 1993 GQ interview, Depp recalled experimenting with chemical substances early in his life.
“I’m sure my brain stopped at 17,” he said.
“I was really happy then…
In a way, I’m sort of stuck there.”
Years later, he would suggest that his longtime drug and alcohol use had become an issue.
“I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself.
Now, these gold caps weren’t something he had applied in the makeup chair every morning.
Alas, Depp jumped into the procedure without communicating with Disney first.
Determined to stick to his creative vision, Depp threatened to quit.
“I said, ‘Look, these are the choices I made.
You know my work, so either trust me or give me the boot.'”
For Depp, the removal procedure was brutal.
“The process of taking them off can be ugly.”
“I think I’ll have to [remove them] at some point.
“He has wear, which has been a cumulative effect over a lifetime,” Dr. Apa said.
Apa also noted that veneers would probably be Depp’s best bet given the state of his teeth.
“I would do veneers because he needs his bite reestablished.
He’s worn his teeth down so much,” Apa said.
After his teeth made a splash at Cannes, Johnny Depp apparently went and got a set of veneers.
“It was a result of all those years of letting himself go,” the source claimed.
The source went on to suggest the actor was happy with the changes he’d made to his teeth.
“Now he’s done the dental work, and he can smile with confidence.
His choppers gleam,” they said.
As Los Angeles based cosmetic dentistDr.
“The purpose of the procedure was to correct his worn down, stained, and decayed teeth.”
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