author of the book Yaeba Girl. "Some say it originated from Japanese traditional aesthetic sense of wabi, which means that we find beauty in imperfect shapes." TYB48 - a play on Tomomi Itano's ...

In the U.S. people aim for perfectly straight dentures, but an entirely different trend has taken off in Japan. Many teenaged girls have undergone dental procedures called yaeba to elongate their ...

The story is slightly different in Japan, where "yaeba," or snaggletooth, are considered cute; with some men finding the imperfect smile they form endearingly childlike and attractive. Okay, so maybe ...

Japanese women are going crazy for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentuated canine teeth. The look, known as the 'yaeba' look, is well-liked by men, who find the imperfect smile they form ...

The Japanese trend for crooked, “snaggle” teeth is going from strength to strength. Yaeba – which translates literally as “double tooth” is a dental procedure which sees the upper ...

Yaeba in Japanese means “double tooth”. The procedure pushes canine teeth forward so they stick out. The teeth often are made longer and sharper, and look like a vampire’s fangs. The ...

many of whom focus on the fact that this fad is "peculiarly Japanese" in the vein of "bagelheading" (injecting saline into your forehead until it swells out of all proportion), yaeba (undergoing ...

You may have heard of the recent dental trend in Japan called "tsuke yaeba," where women get their canines capped to get a crooked set of chompers. If so, you might have guessed that a snaggletooth ...