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Originally Posted by Aj_
There's also a thing about British people and bad teeth. While we don't have as good dentists, and our teeth are probably not as good as the United States (although that's probably not including the American poor), they're not "bad".
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Seems to me that it's not so much the quality of the dentists as a different perception of what "good" teeth are.
In the US it's assumed that to look good your teeth
must all be straight and
must be pearly white. And to get to that state you're expected to pay a bunch of money to your dentists. No crookedness or yellowing allowed. Without question every actor who looks attractive on screen has had their teeth done for lots of money.
While from what I've seen Europeans are more comfortable with the "natural" state of teeth, that is, not using painful braces to correct any crookedness or using whitening products to alter the teeth's original shade. A philosophy of "if it ain't painful, don't cap it", I'm guessing.
