There are plenty of celebs that have gotten work done on their chompers despite their teeth being, while not perfect, perfectly fine. Beckinsale is one of those people. Her teeth were a bit long and uneven, but a little bit of work (which she openly admits to) whitened, straightened, and corrected all of those small issues to give her a bright, winning smile.
Some custom-made porcelain veneers help keep her smile in tip-top shape. Such high-quality work is neither cheap nor pain-free, but it can help a person go from a middling star to a big name with a big, recognizable grin.
Emma Watson
How bad were Watson's teeth? While she was filming some of the “Harry Potter” movies, she had to wear fake teeth. That bad. Her teeth were chipped and uneven and an unattractive yellow color. Far from the perfect teeth we're used to on the screen. Today, however, her teeth and smile are both perfect. After years of work with braces, whiteners, and over options, she got the star-quality smile that is always a help to a person's movie career.
Across the pond, dental health means something a little different – while in the United States, it's seen as best to have straight, white teeth, in the United Kingdom, it isn't. It's why the British cliché of nasty teeth first appeared.
Tom Cruise
The right dental work can change a person's face from a brutish thug to a mega-star, and there's no better example than that of Tom Cruise. In one of Cruise's first roles, he played Steve Randle, a tough greaser in Francis Ford Coppola's “The Outsiders.” The movie came out in 1983, and after filming was done, Cruise let the dentists get to work.
His smile looks much better now, but it isn't flawless – if you look at enough pictures of Cruise (and we have, trust us), you'll notice that one of his incisors is right in the center of his face.
David Beckham
David Beckham has gone from a long-haired grunt with crooked teeth and a big smile to a short-haired, tattooed celeb whose big smile now has a perfect set. A fine wine grows better with age, they say, and this is a pretty good example. One of the first things that Beckham got done to make him a mainstream star and not just a legendary footballer was work on his teeth.
His boyish grin contained crooked, uneven teeth. The standard set of whitening and veneers helped get everything into order, so now he's not only physically gifted, but he's gifted in the looks department as well.
LeAnn Rimes
Few have had a longer road to dental perfection than LeAnn Rimes. This singer, songwriter, actress, and author has had lots of work done to get her Hollywood teeth, starting in the nineties with cosmetic work. It went well, but she ended up suing her dentist. From 2009 to 2012, she got a number of veneers, crowns, and other work, but she later claimed that all the work caused her severe pain and chronic dental troubles – things that made it impossible for her to sing.
She's now had a staggering thirty dental surgeries, and while her smile looks wonderful now, we wonder if Rimes was tempted to just throw the whole deal away and just go with her natural teeth.