The whole time I sat through The Hangover, I could not stop wondering how the makeup artists made Ed Helms' missing tooth (see above, at right) look so real... or rather, really-not-there. Turns out, it was no trompe-l'oeil -- the big, gummy gap in the 35-year-old Office star's smile is authentic. As Helms -- who plays an uptight dentist in the film -- told People:
It is totally real. I have an implant. An adult tooth never came in … and when I was 16, they did a permanent implant. We started to do different tests with prosthetics and blacking it out and nothing worked. I wasn't eager to take out my implant because my mouth is healthy, but I talked to my dentist … and he was like, 'Yeah we can do it!' My dentist was really into it.
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