Overbites and buck teeth

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14 Sep 2012, 2:25 pm

I've been watching several documentaries about autism today and noticed that a whole lot of the kids on there had buck teeth. More had them than didn't. I also had pretty big, buck teeth as a child but got braces and thats all corrected now.

I am wondering if folks on the spectrum may be more prone to that than others, or maybe it's just a coincidence that more of the kids in those particular documentaries have them. Either could be true.

Who else had them?

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14 Sep 2012, 2:31 pm

no buck teeth or overbite. I have an underbite though and I have noticed that some Autistic people have them.

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14 Sep 2012, 2:36 pm

slight overbite, no buck teeth. Nothing worth getting corrected.

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14 Sep 2012, 3:10 pm

I still have buck teeth.

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14 Sep 2012, 3:13 pm

I had severe buck teeth as a child, until I got braces. I still have an overbite.

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14 Sep 2012, 3:14 pm

Braces fixed my overbite but destroyed my self image :-P

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14 Sep 2012, 3:22 pm

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14 Sep 2012, 3:32 pm

I had buck teeth and an overbite which were corrected with braces when I was in middle school, and I had them until my freshman year in high school. The fact that I had braces was why I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed at 16, since a couple of them were impacted. I still have a slight overbite, but no buck teeth since that was corrected from the braces.

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14 Sep 2012, 3:33 pm

My front teeth are pretty bucked. My "friends" in school used to call me "bucky beaver"!

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14 Sep 2012, 4:45 pm

I had bucked teeth before I got braces in Grade 8.

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14 Sep 2012, 4:58 pm

lady_katie wrote:

My front teeth are pretty bucked. My "friends" in school used to call me "bucky beaver"!

Kids at school used to call me "Bugs Bunny" and one of my friends compared me to the green airplane from "Jay jay the Jet Plane":

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14 Sep 2012, 5:25 pm

Unfortunately, even as a baby I had them quite bad
I think this is when the mocking and bullying started

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14 Sep 2012, 6:00 pm

I have an overbite, but I don't have buck teeth.

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