[ SECRET POST #3031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3031 ⌋

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Comments

[ill_omened]

Literally some of the best teeth in the world from a health perspective, which is on top of the hilarious amount of shit we eat in comparison to other countries.

The difference is that they're not artifically whitened, and covered with veeners etc like american teeth are.

[(Anonymous)]

Veeners are so not the thing here in the US that other countries make them out to be. The only people who get them are people where their appearance is part of their job. It's extremely rare for the average person to have them. But we do whiten our teeth so they aren't the same color as corn.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

People are getting all if their information on American teeth from TV (where obviously there will be a greater amount of cosmetic dental work on display) and applying it to the entire US population while simultaneously decrying steretypes about Britsh teeth.

I don't know anyone with veneers. I didn't even know that many kids with braces back when I was a teen, and I knew penty of people whose parents could have afforded them/had insursnce to cover them. I rarely meet people with blindingly white teeth. Only one in recent memory was a woman who had just gotten married a month before and had gone to get her teeth bleached. Most people just use whitening toothpaste or home whitening kits, if anything.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm American and have seriously never heard of "veeners". wtf lol.

People who care about their appearances will often whiten teeth or straighten them, though. But they will also probably go to the dentist regularly and have healthy teeth, too.

[(Anonymous)]

What you mean is, your teeth are healthy and only look gross. Good to know.

[(Anonymous)]

Trying to troll by pretending that superficiality is the correct choice isn't really working for you.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I think teeth are one of the most valid things to get superficial about. You can tell a lot about someone by their teeth (and more importantly, who wants to kiss someone with gross teeth?)

[(Anonymous)]

What can you tell about someone by their teeth?

[(Anonymous)]

that their breath is going to smell from rot and gingivitis

[(Anonymous)]

I usually learn about someone's bad breath when I smell their breath and it's bad, not by examining their teeth...

[(Anonymous)]

You seem to be missing the context here. "Gross" in this context refers to the British standards where teeth are healthy, but not necessarily artificially whitened, straightened or with veneers. Good health is not superficial. Artificially white teeth are.

If you don't want to kiss people with "gross teeth", i.e. teeth that haven't seen cosmetic treatment, then it does indeed say a lot about you and it's not very flattering.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Uh, someone who spends money on having their teeth whitened and straightened probably DOES have healthier teeth, sorry. Because they are also likely to go to the dentist regularly, brush regularly, and have cavities filled, etc. I seriously doubt there are many people who take the effort to care for their teeth colour but not their health.

da

[(Anonymous)]

why not? the person they're replying to is also a troll. the only difference is one of them is logged in.

[(Anonymous)]

ehhh British people also smoke like chimneys so I might need a source about being some of the best teeth in the world.

[ill_omened]

http://www.economist.com/node/15060097

*When you're speaking solely about the number of fillings required for children, which tracks pretty closely to overall health of teeth in adult populations but obviously isn't a direct one to one. I know there are other sources for a more general argument out there but I'm not exactly going to go digging for them.

Though I don't think we are especially a nation of smokers? Would have to dig up the stats on that but certainly for europe and asia I've always been of the impression we spoke less then average.

[(Anonymous)]

The USA is Very strongly prejudiced against smoking.

[(Anonymous)]

Enjoy your cancer then foreign idjit.

[(Anonymous)]

are you drunk?

[(Anonymous)]

are you smoking fags?

[(Anonymous)]

Figures vary by source (WHO, CDC etc.) but the prevalence of smoking in the UK is about 19-20%, and the prevalence in the US is about 18-19%. The smoking ban in the UK has also reduced the number of new smokers in the past few years, so as those filter through (pardon the pun) then the percentage will reduce. The UK also has one of the lowest prevalences of female smokers in the EU.

European countries have much higher rates. Greece, Poland, Spain, Germany and France all have higher rates than the UK.

And then you have countries like Russia and Japan where smoking is even more prevalent.