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Do you ever find yourself scrolling through pictures of cats and dogs thinking, 'It is so cute I could eat it'?
Well, it's called cute aggression and it might be bad for your teeth, according to one dentist.
Cute aggression is a type of 'dimorphous expression' — where your outward actions or expressions don't match how you're feeling on the inside. For example, crying out of sheer happiness.
Dr Rizwan Mahmood, a dentist based in London, claims it can result in 'crunching and biting our jawline tightly'.
Do you ever find yourself scrolling through pictures of cats and dogs thinking 'It's so cute I could eat it'? (File photo of the Netherland's Eveline Smit's YouTube-famous daschund and a duck)
Well it's called cute aggression and it might be bad for your teeth, according to one dentist (File photograph by Bridget Davey in England)
Dentist Dr Rizwan Mahmood claims cute aggression can result in 'crunching and biting our jawline tightly', which he said risks 'cracking, chipping and breaking our teeth (File photo)
This, he said, risks 'cracking, chipping and breaking our teeth'.
And it could be easier to do dental damage than you think.
For instance,
