Veneers

[sora-kara]

I was poking through my Ayu album booklets the other day, when I noticed that her teeth in the beginning of her career were kinda messy.

I knew she had something done to her teeth because these:

are just not natural.
her smile also looks awkward and forced, like she's not used to the feel of those teeth, and shes not sure what to do with her lips.

As you can see in this picture taken from A Song for XX's booklet

her teeth are uneven and have some crowding. (if you have the booklet, go look at it, it might be easier to see there instead of in this scan)
They're not actually all that bad, but the more I thought about it, and the more I looked, I realized that Ayu never really used to smile like this.
She tends to do a closed mouth smirk or smile, or those little poutty cat/duck lips, but early pictures of her with a full tooth grin are few and far between.

It made me wonder if that was because she was uncomfortable with her teeth. I think she may have had a few things done to her teeth over time (whitening/bleaching/things along those lines), but the most obvious procedure seems to have happened sometime around (miss)understood.
The cover shows off those teeth, and suddenly there are all these pictures of her with huge open-mouthed smiles.

I showed my mum (who is a dentist) some before and after pictures, and she said Ayu had some veneers (all over), and maybe some minor orthodontics (on the bottom) done. Veneers can take a few hours to do, so she could've been in and out of the dentist in a day or two with completely new teeth, and few noticeable side effects (no swelling to her face/tongue, no real discomfort or interference).

What I'm trying to figure out here, is not IF or WHAT she had done, but exactly WHEN it happened.
I don't have a lot of singles so I can't get closer than saying it happened between MY STORY and (miss)understood.
I'm wondering if anyone has any singles, or magazines that came out around that time that could help us pinpoint exactly when she had these veneers done.

I'm also wondering if Ayu has ever said anything about them. Why she decided to do it, and what she thinks of them now etc.

I don't know about you guys, but I thought she was fine before. These new teeth are too bright and false looking. No one has teeth like this:

and they look fairly unnatural.
:/