The Christopher Hitchens makeover continues in Vanity Fair, this time with some terrrifying photos of the Hitch’s recent dental work. (The main article by Hitchens is not online.) Don’t worry, there are waxing photos, too.
Incidentally, I hate to perpetuate a national cliché, but what is it with the British and their teeth? One of Hitchens’s (ex-?)friends, Martin Amis, goes into harrowing detail about his rotten teeth and their extraction and replacement in his memoir, Experience, and he, like Hitchens, grew up well-fed and well-educated. What went wrong? Do British water pipes have a sugary lining? Is the National Health Service really that bad? Or is it like obesity here in the U.S.: an obvious problem that most people are simply too lazy to do much about?
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