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A gap between the front teeth, or midline diastema, is becoming a hot physical trend for some women. But this trend piece about the love of the tooth gap seems to be taking things just a bit too far.

Gap-toothed models were all over the runways at this season’s Paris Fashion Week. Instead of fixing their teeth, some of Hollywood’s freshest faces, including Anna Paquin and Elizabeth Moss, proudly sport a midline diastema, the dental term for the gap. And, last month, on “America’s Next Top Model,” host Tyra Banks sent a 22-year-old contestant from Boise, Idaho, to the dentist to widen her gap. The beauty blogosphere has been buzzing ever since.

Sylvia Lan, of Santa Clara, Calif., has always embraced her diastema. So have the lovestruck men who mention it before asking her out.

“They seem to think it’s sexy,” says Lan, a 40-something who works in sales. “Go figure. Instead of looking at my chest, they’re looking at my teeth.”

Gap-toothed women are in vogue [The Oklahoman]

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