In hip-hop culture, the term grills refers to cosmetic dental metal apparatus featuring silver, gold, or platinum caps with diamond inlays (usually princess-cut diamonds) jewelled to be worn over the teeth. Grills rose to prominence with Dirty South rappers in the 2000s as a symbol of their wealth and success, but earlier rappers such as Big Daddy Kane, Flavor Flav, and Kool G. Rap also wore them. Horrorcore supergroup The Gravediggaz were well known for their vampiric fang grills in the early 90s. Grills have also been worn by some rock artists from Korn, Brooke Hogan, Marilyn Manson, Avenged Sevenfold and Dir en grey. The video to the 2005 single “Grillz” (by Nelly, Paul Wall, Big Gipp, and Ali) showcases many common styles of grills. Grills can be purchased online or at specialty shops.

Grills are also known as Fronts, Golds, Plates, Gold Grills, Shines, Caps, Slugs, Pullouts.

While some grills are made to be removable similar to that of an orthodontic retainer, others are permanently bonded to the teeth of their owners.