This is the Guardian. Love Island is back on UK screens.

And after 8 series, there are certain things we've come to expect from the show,

glowing tans, sculpted abbs, and of course those dazzlingly bright, perfectly straight, teeth.

They've been nicknamed Turkey Teeth after one of the most popular destinations for cosmetic dental treatment.

And seeing these Hollywood smiles in the villa and all over social media,

is making more of us consider going abroad to correct our own imperfect teeth.

But how exactly do people get the Love Island look? And what happens if it goes wrong.

From the Guardian I'm Madeline Finley and this is science Weekly.

Weekly. Paul Woodhouse, you ran your own dental practice in the northeast of England

and you're also on the board of the British Dental Association.

I want to start by understanding exactly how people get these love island smiles.

What's the least invasive way to achieve it?

The least invasive way to get the cosmetic results that people want is initially be born with

straight teeth and just have a little bit of whitening. The next least

destructive way is to align the teeth that you've got with either conventional

braces, what people call train track braces or clear aligners which are much

more popular and maybe some edge bonding

with some little white filling materials just to straighten off any edges that are a bit

roughened. After that we go on to veneas which are essentially false fingernails and this is what everyone thinks they're getting when they go abroad

They're always described as veneas a true veneer requires very little tooth preparation in fact these things are very very thin

fractions of millimeters. In that case your teeth are still untouched underneath

and if you have the veneas taken off, your teeth underneath are still

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