Once upon a time the only teeth you had to worry about were your own. Straight, crooked, clean or stained, cavities or none, they were your teeth and you were the only person who had to deal with the misery if you made a bad choice about dental care.

But now you have a family, and it’s not just you. Your spouse, and even more important, your children, will have to live with your choices for them. It’s one thing to choose second best for yourself. It is another to choose second best for your family. (more…)

Teeth care is something that British people aren’t well known for but in recent times it has started to improve. Taking the lead from the USA we have started to adopt some of their oral care techniques like teeth whitening as well as implementing practice branded dental plans.

The teeth of the British people have never really been bad teeth, we have just always been more focused on the health of our teeth rather than how the teeth look. That said a number of my friends have fillings and for those of the older generation this seems to be a more common problem. Some when during the 1970’s or maybe as late as the 80’s attitudes to British teeth changed, as more and more children who had gaps in their teeth or large overbites were given braces. (more…)