Towards the end of the 2010s, we began to notice a change in rappers and their choice of mouth candy or lack thereof. Rappers began taking drastic measures to gain a new Hollywood smile by bleaching, straightening, and fixing their teeth, becoming a new sign of success.

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According to Complex, Dr. Daniel Naysan, a dentist at Bedford Dental Group in Beverly Hills, talked about how he has given countless rappers the aesthetic smiles they desire for over a decade. Dr. Naysan explained that most rappers would go to him for porcelain veneers and how he started collaborating with Gold Teeth God, Ian Marks.

"I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Gold Teeth God but he does a lot of grillz for a lot of rappers, people in the music industry, and athletes," Dr. Naysan said. "We started working with each other, and he sends business here for me to take impressions of people’s grillz, and I actually send my patients to him as well. We have a little collab thing going on. If we’re talking about rappers and people in the hip-hop industry, recently they’ve been doing a lot of porcelain veneers to glam their smile up. They’ve also been doing a lot of fixed gold crowns with diamonds."

Rappers such as Lil Pump, Famous Dex, Tory Lanez, and more have gone to Dr. Naysan for his dental expertise.

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It is true that grillz are popular with your favorite rappers and influencers, but mouth jewelry has been around for a long time. Since ancient times, grillz have been worn as a symbol of wealth, social class, and status. As the years have passed, grillz are still seen as a sign of success. Rappers from all walks of life have contributed to the trend, from gold fronts in the 1980s to platinum and diamond grillz in the 2000s. Although rappers today are leaning more towards a clean, Hollywood-esque smile, Grillz will remain a key player in the Black history of Hip-Hop.

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