Article: MEN'S STYLE: The great white hope Many British men are ashamed of their discoloured teeth. So, asks John Walsh, could bleaching save our smiles?

English teeth are nothing to be proud of. On the contrary, they're things to regard with shame. When the writer Toby Young was hanging out in Manhattan in 1995 and trying to impress women with his not- quite-Hugh- Grant, Anglo gorgeousness, he fell at an enamel hurdle. "On one occasion," he writes in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, "a beautiful girl I was chatting to at a party asked if she could see my teeth. After I bared my gums, she called out to her friend: `Hey, come look at this. This guy's got "English Teeth'." Young does not elaborate, but you can sort of imagine the grey-beige nightmare that the American girls inspected with such fascination.

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