Celebrity Teeth Regrets: Stars Who Didn’t Like Their Dental Work

When it comes to dental transformations, celebrities are known to go through minor or major alterations. The famous go-to method in fixing a crooked, chipped or gap-toothed smile is acquiring veneers.

Many Hollywood stars have flaunted newly straightened and whitened smiles, such as Tom Cruise and Miley Cyrus. Both similarly changed their original front teeth and Miley wasn’t the only former Disney Channel star who underwent dental changes. Even Zac Efron opted to close his teenage front tooth gap during his High School Musical days.

Hilary Duff was another Disney member who suddenly switched out her teeth in 2005 for a new set of porcelain veneers. As a result, countless fans criticized the Lizzie McGuire actress for the cosmetic upgrade. However, it turned out she had chipped a few of her teeth on microphones when she performed on stage, so she definitely needed some new ones after that.

Years later, the How I Met Your Father star went through another dental setback when she was about to marry her now-ex-husband, Mike Comrie, in 2010.

“The beginning part of the day I lost my tooth,” Hilary recalled on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that year. “Tooth fell out in my hand. Thank God I didn’t swallow it. Not good for a bride on her wedding day … I bit in to a bagel. I was sitting on the bed with my mom and my sister and they’re like, ‘You’re an idiot, you did not. Come on!’”

The worst part was that Hilary was set to walk down the aisle in a matter of hours. At first, she found some humor in the otherwise unfortunate event but panicked shortly afterward. “I started laughing at myself, and then, I really burst into tears.”

Fellow teenage icon Lindsay Lohan also underwent dental work. After facing harsh criticism from viewers for discolored teeth, the Freaky Friday actress later received veneers to enhance her smile.

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However, there have been multiple celebrities who have regretted their new teeth. Demi Lovato famously explained why they wished they hadn’t had changed their adoring teeth gap when they started working with the Disney Channel. Aside from Demi, plenty of other stars have also confessed their remorse at the sight of their new teeth.

Aside from dental work, though, a few famous names have come forward about their natural teeth changes. Actress Dakota Johnson admitted she had lost her precious tooth gap naturally, without opting for any extensive cosmetic alterations.

Scroll through the gallery to see which celebrities regretted their new teeth and why.

Zendaya

Although she may not have regretted her tooth surgery, the actress did fear that it would impact her Dune audition scenes with costar Timothée Chalamet.

“I had just gotten my wisdom teeth taken out,” the actress told W Magazine in March 2022. “My biggest fear was that my mouth would be vile, and then I would have to do a scene with Timothée where we have to be really close and he would smell my dry socket breath.”

Demi Lovato

The Disney Channel alum revealed they wished that they didn’t change their smile as a teenager. “I signed with the Disney Channel when I got to Camp Rock, and I had a gap between my two front teeth,” Demi told Allure magazine in 2016. “They were like, ‘Would you be willing to fix it?’ I wish today that I hadn’t.”

Rylan Clark-Neal 

The Celebrity Big Brother: Bit on the Side presenter admitted his “biggest mistake” was his teeth to Bang Showbiz in 2016. In November 2021, Rylan announced he was getting a new smile. “After 8 years. It hits, so much, but sometimes you just have to let it go,” he tweeted on November 15. I’ve taken the decision to say goodbye… to my teeth.”

Dakota Johnson 

In 2019, the Fifty Shades of Grey star admitted she was “sad” that her “gap tooth” was gone on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019.
“I had a permanent retainer since I was, like, 13,” she recalled. “And it was just glued to the back of my teeth. And I was having a lot of neck problems recently, so my orthodontist — she decided that it would be a good idea to take it off and see if my jaw expanded. And it helped me and my gap closed by itself.”