Developments Of British Teeth & Dental Plans
Teeth care is something that British people aren’t exactly known for but in recent times it has begun to improve. Taking the lead from the Americans we have started to adopt some of their dental hygiene techniques like teeth whitening as well as implementing practice branded dental plans.
British teeth have never really been bad teeth, we have just always been more interested in 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 70′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 terrible overbites were fitted with braces.
Having had a slight overbite when I was younger I was taken to the orthodontist and measured up for some fixed braces or ‘train tracks’, as they were known at school. The process wasn’t that traumatic, I had to have a mould of my teeth taken and then had the brace fitted, which took a while as I was having the fixtures attached onto my teeth. Then after this the wires were fixed and tightened. This was probably the hardest part of the process as I was left with a constant pulling feeling on my teeth, which left a dull ache for the first couple of days. This initial aching calmed down after a day or so and then I just had to learn to cope with my braces with regards to eating and drinking.
My teeth now look alot better and I’m glad I had braces for that year or so as I can imagine they could have caused a few problems as I’ve got older. Now a days British teeth have developed their oral hygiene. Teeth whitening has become the latest craze with everything from Crest whitestrips to laser teeth whiting being used at the dental practice and at home. Another improvement for British teeth is the use of dental plans by dentist practises. These allow practices to have their own branded dental plans that allow non NHS dentists to offer their services to what would typically be NHS patients at an affordable rate.
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