Teeth

Up to around age 12 or 13 (and then again at 18), the appearance of Angelina's teeth (assuming they can be seen well enough) provides a decently reliable method of dating footage of her, when that information is not known through other means. In order to be able to do this, one needs a general idea of how her teeth changed over time, as well as good images of her teeth on various specific dates. The purpose of this page is to present that information and imagery.

Background information

Wikipedia has information about:

Human teeth^↗

First, a review of the basic facts about human teeth, including some terminology that will be used in subsequent sections.

During their lifetimes, most humans will "go through" two sets of teeth, popularly known as "baby teeth" and "adult teeth". Baby teeth are also known as primary teeth, because they come in first, or deciduous teeth, because they fall out during childhood, to be replaced by adult teeth. A full set of baby teeth consists of 20 teeth, 10 on the top and 10 on the bottom (or 5 in each "quadrant" of the mouth: upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right). Adult teeth are also known as permanent teeth, because once they come in, they are supposed to last for the rest of ones life. A full set of adult teeth (most commonly) consists of 32 teeth (16 top and 16 bottom, or 8 in each quadrant), although it is not uncommon for people to develop more or fewer than this number. It is much less common for babies to develop more or fewer than the typical count of primary teeth.

Note that the directions "right" and "left" are from the perspective of the person whose teeth are being discussed. They are the opposite of the directions from the perspective of someone facing that person (i.e., the "camera's perspective" in videos and photographs of the person).

Teeth are classified by their relative position along (each side of) the jawline, with (usually) 4 teeth of each class.

Technical names of baby teeth

For babies, the 20 teeth are classified as:

1. central incisors, commonly known as "front teeth"
2. lateral incisors, or laterals for short, which are the teeth to either side of the front teeth
3. canines, behind the laterals, as we move back along the jawline
4. first molars, just behind the canines
5. second molars, at the very back of the jaw

Most babies are born "without teeth" — that is, before their teeth have erupted (emerged from the gumline) and become visible. The central incisors typically erupt first (more specifically, usually the lower central incisors), at around 6 months of age, beginning a process known as "teething"^↗. Eruption continues in roughly the order listed above (the laterals often being next to emerge, followed by the canines, etc.), with the lower teeth of each type generally emerging earlier than the upper (on the average, in the population as a whole), until around 25–33 months of age, at which point most babies have a full set of primary teeth.

Most children start to lose their baby teeth at around 6 to 7 years of age, with the lower central incisors, again, commonly being the first to go. The order that baby teeth fall out varies greatly from person to person, but generally (when averaged across the entire population) roughly matches the order in which they emerge (lower teeth earlier than upper, central/front teeth before outer/rear teeth).

Technical names of adult teeth (note that the lateral and canine labels have been accidentally switched in the bottom half)

For adults, the 32 teeth are classified as:

1. central incisors, or front teeth
2. lateral incisors, or laterals for short
3. canines
4. first premolars (these replace the first primary molars)
5. second premolars (these replace the second primary molars)
6. first molars (these, and the rest in this list, are present only in adults)
7. second molars
8. third molars, also known as "wisdom teeth"

Development

Several videos show Angelina's baby teeth at very young ages, presumably before any had fallen out.

Angelina apparently began to lose her baby teeth when she was 5 or 6. In the video Angelina Jordan singing when she is 5 years old^↗, posted to the Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz channel on YouTube, she appears to be missing her two lower central incisors. (Unfortunately, the claim that she was 5 in this video is quite dubious, since Angelina mentions her sister by name at around 3:22 into the video, and Juliette wasn't born until nearly two months after Angelina turned 6. Granted, the family could have already known the gender and settled on a name two months before she was born, but it seems more likely that the age is wrong in the title, because several other videos on this YouTube channel give incorrect ages in their titles.)

• Missing bottom central incisors, likely at 6
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By the time the video Angelina Jordan in studio^↗ was recorded (in which she "acts out" the lyrics of "What a Wonderful World" for the camera, part of her early studio work at Bjerke Lydstudio), she apparently had a full set of lower teeth, at least out to the canine on her right and first molar on her left. (Again, keep in mind that "right" and "left" are from Angelina's perspective, not "ours" as we look at her.) In this video it appears that her lower right lateral is still a baby tooth, as is her upper left central incisor, while her upper right central incisor is missing.

• Bottom central incisors are back (adult teeth), now missing upper right incisor, probably at 7
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Almost all of the videos of her work at Bjerke Lydstudio in which her teeth are visible show them looking very much like they do here (the notable exceptions being the ones in which she is singing "I (Who Have Nothing)"). Support for the idea that she was 7 at the time is provided by the video Baby gangnam style^↗ which was posted to YouTube on 2013-05-13 (about 4 months after she turned 7) and shows (granted, not very well) very similar looking teeth. ⁺ 

In her Norske Talenter audition and second-round videos, both lower laterals are quite apparently missing, or at least not fully replaced. ⁺ 

By late 2014, all incisors were apparently replaced, with the upper right lateral and the lower left lateral not yet fully grown out. ⁺ 

In November 2015, all permanent incisors were fully grown out, and all canines present. ⁺ 

In July 2016, all canines were still present. ⁺ 

Late in 2017, her upper canines were both missing. ⁺ 

Later changes

In mid 2024, after her concert in Glendale on 2024-09-20 and before a first video showed the change by 2024-10-03, when she was 18, Angelina had dental work done (veneers?) which made her teeth more uniform looking (most noticeably, her top laterals are no longer significantly shorter than her two front teeth). ⁺