British people often get stick for their dental hygiene but this is beginning to change. Taking the lead from the Americans we have began to take on some of their dental hygiene practises like tooth whitening as well as implementing practise branded dental plans.
British peoples gnashers can be bad but most Brits concentrate on the health of their teeth rather than the look. That said, a lot of my acquaintances have fillings and for those that are slightly older this seems to be more so. At some point during the Seventies or possibly the 80’s attitudes to teeth changed as more and more children who had gaps in their teeth or large overbites were given braces.
Even I had to have braces to sort out my overbite and to straighten up my teeth. The process wasn’t that traumatic, I had to have a mould of my teeth made up and then had the brace fitted and cemented onto my teeth. The next step was that the wires were attached and tightened. This was the part that caused me pain as the wires pulled on my teeth. The pain disappeared after a couple of days and I just had to learn to live with them.
The braces sorted out my teeth and I’m glad I had braces for that year or so as I can imagine my teeth could have caused a few problems later in life. Now a days the British people have developed their dental hygiene. Home teeth whitening kits have become popular as people strive for sexy celebrity teeth. It is now more common for dentist surgeries to have their own dental plans. These are surgery branded dental payment plans that allow NHS customers to use private dentists at a reasonable rate.
