Are Dental Flippers Necessary When Child Actors Lose Teeth?

Dental Flippers by Dr. Smith

If your child loses a tooth, a talent agent or talent manager might recommend that you look into dental flippers.

Of course, if you are just trying to start an acting career for your child, you may not even know what dental flippers are.

As we were driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career for my daughter, I heard a scream from the back seat.  I turned to see what the problem was and saw blood on my daughter’s hands and face.

I was relieved to discover that the blood was just from my daughter’s front tooth!

One of her front baby teeth popped out when she bit down on a piece of gum. The tooth had not even been loose, so it was unexpected and resulted in a lot of blood.

I soon started to think about how losing her front tooth might affect her acting career.

I knew it was probably not a good thing, but how bad was it?

It seemed silly to be worrying about a natural event like losing a tooth. But a front tooth can make a big difference in how a child looks, especially in photographs.

My daughter was young-looking and fairly small for a six-year-old, but with a missing front tooth, how could she pass for a three or four-year-old?

How would her manager feel about it?

When we first visited my daughter’s talent manager, he noticed the missing tooth right away.  I asked him if it would be a problem.

He seemed a little disappointed, but told me not to worry about it.  He casually mentioned that a flipper would fix it, but that I did not need to spend the money on one unless the topic came up.

Losing a tooth is pretty common for a six-year-old, though some kids don’t lose them until they turn seven or eight.

Would a missing tooth affect my daughter’s ability to get a talent agent?

Since my daughter got a talent agency without any problem with the missing tooth, I did not think much more about it.

But when we visited someone about print work, the agent pointed to her mouth with a loud sigh and whispered to the other agent about it.

At that point, I decided to look into dental flippers. I soon had the information I needed, and off we went to get one.

So, “Are dental flippers necessary when child actors lose teeth?”

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