Bustin the stereotype - British people DO NOT HAVE BAD TEETH OK!!!!!!

No, you are wrong. I´ve been there and they DO.



All of them. (well, most)

Many, many Americans have bad teeth - they just don´t allow any of that reality on TV.

Most Americans are so fat they can´t get behind the wheel of a Brits car.

Well, it seems the tooth fairy is in dreamland again! They definitely have bad teeth in comparison to, for example, the US/Canada.

None of them? Not a single Brit has bad teeth? It´s actually an entire country where EVERY SINGLE PERSON has the most amazingly good teeth that you couldn´t even imagine it? Wow! Incredible!

ok i´ll rephrase that - generally don´t have bad teeth.

btw are americans oral fetishist or what????

i certainly don´t spend any time at all scrutinising someones teeth when i meet them.

but then i understand appearances are much more important to americans, shallow? never.

personally i couldn´t give a shit if someone has bad teeth if they´re a nice person

If you couldn´t give a shit, you would never have posted about it.

When your father works in teeth, you notice those of other people´s. He used to give out toothbrushes for Halloween. Talk about embarassing.

duh

it´s because others do that i did.

(for the brits) DUUUUUUHHH MMMNNRGHH JOEEEY!

No, it´s because you´re obsessing about the subject. If you really don´t give a shit as you state, you would not have posted about it as the subject would not even be on your mind.

no it´s because i just read lots of posts with it in.

and i fancied a rant (which i might add is pretty sane compared to some here)

Austin Powers has those huge yellow teeth and he is a Brit.

The first step to recovery is admitting you have the problem. This obsession of yours will not go away if you continue to deny it exists. please move on. You won´t have much of a life if you devote it to the condition of teeth in England. Unless of course you plan to be a dentist there.

ok i´ll feed your obvious wind up tendencies.

if some (SOME) brits ave bad teeth here´s why


NHS: Supply of dentists at crisis point


The crisis in NHS dentistry is set to worsen in the coming years, with staff shortages expected to more than double, a Government report has revealed.
Figures compiled and published by the Department of Health (DoH) showed that in 2003 there was a shortage of 1,850 dentists in England.

But projections for 2011 showed that shortages were expected to increase to at least 3,640 and perhaps as high as 5,100.

The British Dental Association (BDA) said there was now no doubt that the supply of dentists had reached crisis point.

The long-awaited Report of the Primary Care Dental Workforce Review, published without fanfare on the DoH website, calculated supply and demand for dental services based on population projections and dental registration data.

The authors then calculated the current and future gap between supply and demand.

Last week Health Secretary John Reid promised to bring an extra 1,000 dentists into the NHS by October 2005 in a bid to improve services for patients.

But based on the latest workforce review, this would still leave the NHS significantly short of enough dentists to meet demand.

Severe shortages have already led to long queues of patients forming outside new dental practices, with less than half of adults in England now registered with an NHS dentist.

It is expected that around 650 of the extra dentists promised by the Government will be new recruits either from Britain or overseas.

Dr Reid said the changes to dentistry were part of the biggest reforms since the service began in 1948.

He also said that by 2005/06 NHS dentists would receive extra funding of more than £250 million a year - an increase of 19.3% compared to 2003/04.

But John Renshaw, chair of the BDA´s executive board, said today: "There is no doubt that the supply of dentists has reached crisis point, as patients trying to access dental treatment know only too well.

"This long overdue report underlines the severity of the situation and shows that the gap between patient need and the number of dentists required is set to get even worse

I don´t really care if Brits have bad teeth. I don´t think about it. but you seem to be very interested in the subject. obsessed even.

There are many danes with bad teeth because it costs so much to go to the dentist. Why dentistry isn´t covered by the national health insurance, I can´t say, but there you go.

I will say that while I don´t think people should have those awful, unnatural shiny white teeth, there is something to be said about good oral hygiene. I saw a woman lawyer talking on television one day. She looked great, well-dressed, groomed, etc. until she opened her mouth. Really bad, stereotypical british teeth. So, IMO, having decent teeth is important. Don´t have to be perfect but clean looking makes a difference.

I agree 100% with you!

Yeah, for some silly reason-unknown to me-it seems that maybe Americans are a tad bit obsessed with white, perfect teeth. And perfect, molded hair and flawless skin. And anorexic, adolescent looking bodies. The current fetish is pseudo-pedophilia. As young as you can get it without getting arrested. Yuck.

It´s called superficiality, and it´s about the only thing average Americans are really good at.

Pyx I´m an average American and I´m not obsessed with any of those things you speak of. and I´m also good at things other then you mention. Perhaps you need new friends?

RP-

Do you not watch television at all or watch movies or look at magazines?

It´s not about personal associations-it´s about noticing what unnatural, superficial crap is being thrown at your brain in every media format available. It´s what drives a major portion of the American economy.

i hate to tell you guys but austin powers is a fictional character (maybe a stereotype?)

If your knowledge of britain is based on that film then i truly despair.

GO PYX!!!

tell it like it is brother

You stated that is all the average american is good for. Your statement was very general. Hollywood and the media is obsessed. I am an average american and am not however, nor are my associates. so I guess not all average americans fall under your generalizations.

It was a joke, dummy.

Regular Poster-

I´m not wringing my hands over the fact you disagree with me.

I stand by what I said. Take that for what it´s worth.

Of course. Hold onto your generalizatons. How else will you maintain your superiority complex?

LOL!

Superiority complex? That´s really hilarious. If you only knew. Think whatever you want of me. I´m sure somebody has thought of worse, and I´m still breathing.

You´ve got your opinion, I´ve got mine. If mine offended you-well, it´ll just have to, I guess. No skin off my back.

All you gots to do is pick up an issue of "Hello", it is shocking how many wealthy elite status people over there have the skankiest rotten teeth.

I think that is why the Americans loved Princess Di so much, she was one of the first to have gorgeous white teeth! The Queen has teeth like a gopher´s long and yellow and ugly, especially since the royals hate smoking so much (ruins the taste of the blood) they sure do have some ugly teeth.

It´s like on the Simpsons, they show a ´picture´ of Prince Charles with terrible teeth, but if you look at photographs of him, he has perfect white teeth, but let´s not let fact interfere with delusions, shall we?

If we Brits based our perception of Americans on what we see on tv then you´re overly obese, with the most ridiculous hairstyles, always whining, having sex with your sisters/brothers and even horses!

It interesting that only around 8% of Americans own a passport so you can only get your information on the outside world from tv, newspapers and hollywood and we all know how reliable they are, don´t we?