It costs £20,000 to have your upper and lower teeth veneered.
We do not have dental plans.
I have to wait for months for a NHS appointment and only essential work is carried out.
I don’t know how much the POOR PEOPLE in your country have to spare but they are doing ok if they can afford to pay their own dental fees.
I cost me £75 to have a tooth out last year… that is two weeks benefit money to the poor people in this country!
Now you are better informed, I hope you will not be offending the poor old Brits again with you scathing remarks on this subject!

because they don’t bother to brush their teeth

they forget to bruch their teeth looooooool

Too much inbreeding? No! I really didn’t notice that they had bad teeth. Perhaps they don’t have floride in their water?

Do we? That may well have been true 20 years ago or so, but not now. I guess we’ll have that stereotype for a while, it’s like us saying how come Americans are all so fat? We know you’re not, all fat, but it’s a stereotype that us Western Europeans have of you.
My teeth are in excellent condition thanks, due to horrific braces when I was younger… and a good course of teeth whitening every 6 months by my good dentist friend!
Tina – you are wrong, dental is still available on the National Health service, but there is simply a shortage of NHS dentists.

The training is rotten. I went to a ‘European’ dental practise in Hong Kong, but the only dentist I let near my teeth was Chinese. He was trained in the USA, the others were British and British trained. – Sorry, Tim – you’re an exception.

They have publicized, hence “free” healthcare through the NHS, but not free dental.

Because we have such rotten dentists!!!! My dentist took a good tooth out my mistake and then filled my front lower teeth and I couldnt let my teeth touch each other for about a month. I havent been back since. I would rather put up with my toothache that go to him again!!!!! NHS dentists are awful…Better get your teeth seen to in India than in England!!!!

Actually ‘bad teeth’ (by which I assume you mean not pretty) are far from a universal thing in the UK. However, it should be noted that we actually have a crisis within the NHS (national health service) regarding dental care, there are simply not enough dentists to go around! I personally went without one for 5 years before one came available. Many people do pay for private dental care though, its just very expensive. Also attitudes are different in this country, mostly if teeth are functioning well (rather than looking pretty) dentists do not see a need to do evasive procedures.

They Don’t.
In the States, there is a fashion for ultra-white teeth. To be so white is not natural, the real colour of teeth is a slightly creamy white.
Thanks to the film industry, people now strive to have a blinding white set of teeth, hence the veneers, caps and bleaching that goes on. This trend has been in America for years, now it is also becoming fashionable in the UK.
It’s much like the craze for plastic surgery, in America it is now commonplace, the UK is fast catching up too.

I think it becasue we have an free health service for the rest of our bodies, but not our teeth. We therefore resent having to pay for dental care and therefore don’t use it.

lots off sweets

Lol! I had a good laugh. Because it’s mostly true, as much as I hate to generalize. But seriously, I don’t think the dentist there are as good as the ones in America. Lol Im sure that the British say “Why do most Americans have perfect white teeth?

How do you know they have?

I’m Scottish and i totally agree with you !!! When i see people with rotten or crooked teeth it baffles me because i don’t understand why they don’t go and get them fixed !!! I think it’s down to the fact that they either can’t afford to pay for treatment or they are too afraid of the dentist !!! I think the Americans have better dentists….it’s obviously more of a big thing in the states to get their teeth done !!! It should be the same here.

generations of diets lacking certain vitamins and minerals- this is the reason most Americans no longer have room in their mouths for the wisdom teeth and we have so much crowding of teeth in our mouths. It is not evolution, it is degeneration because of lack of nourishment and it only gets worse with each generation. this is why you see similar traits and similar degeneration in a localised area- the diets tend to be similar.
Look at these remote tribes of people that have not been exposed to processed foods and chemical toxins- they eat what God provided for them just like it was provided for them- they have wide jaws that accomodate all of their perfectly straight teeth and no cavities!

maybe cause they eat too much sweets

Not bad just crooked. I dont know though.

Yeah, Id rather save 1500 bucks than save one louzy tooth. Its not worth it.

some think it gives them character (like tom cruises nose) others just couldn’t afford it when they were growing up and are Happy the way they look

Not enough dentists working for the National Health Service, and in any case, they’re too expensive even for ‘routine’ checkups even WHEN you can find one, and out of the question as regards to ‘private’ treatment.
Also, as the question starts “Why do most BRITISH…..” – how come there are so many AMERICAN answers please?

The first company to experiment with Sodium Fluoride in water supplies was IG Farben – Hitler’s massive chemical company that produced chemical gas weapons and was financed by Wall St, plus provided technology by the American Dow Chemical and Alcoa outfits.
Apparently dental florosis was first reported by two dentists in 1916. By 1931 there was extreme concern about what was called ‘Colorado Brown Stain’ and ‘Texas Teeth’. It is now called ‘dental fluorosis’. In that year three independent groups of scientists showed conclusively that the areas with this condition had high levels of fluoride in their water. Although fluoride was known to be the cause, water fluoridation was instituted as a public health measure to help limit dental caries in 1945.
Reports from China, Argentina, Britain, Italy and Japan have shown significant levels of mottling of teeth (fluorosis) in children drinking fluoride-contaminated water. The usually recommended level of 1 part per million produced fluorosis in 28 percent of children aged between 11 and 13 in a study carried out by the University of Rochester, USA.
With the advent of fluoridated dentifrices, fluoridated infant formulas, and commercially prepared beverages with fluoridated water, the incidence of dental fluorosis is increasing. At the Dental Research Unit, Health Research Council, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand investigated fluoride exposures from juices and juice-flavored drinks manufactured with water. In the study, the authors analyzed 532 juices and juice drinks for fluoride. Fluoride ion concentrations ranged from 0.02 to 2.80 parts per million, in part because of variations in fluoride concentrations of water used in production. They say that children’s ingestion of fluoride from juices and juice-flavored drinks can be substantial and a factor in the development of fluorosis.
Fluorosis is a permanent disfigurement and x-rays show visible damage to bones throughout the body. Additionally, the water pipes in parts of UK range between pre war pipes and post war pipes, which means on average, 50 year old water pipe lines.

Poor diet and being unable to get a dentist!!!!

dental care is very expensive and its not covered by their government health ins. im glad your people can afford it, however here in the us, i dont have ins for that either so i lost a tooth because i couldnt pay 1500 dollars to have it fixed. sad isnt it.

I have been watching “Monarch of the Glen” and its unbelievable how the actors and actresses teeth are. There are a few that are not bad but I would think if you’re going to be in front of a camera you would fix your teeth. I’m not talking crooked teeth. I seem that most of them on this show having very heavy brown stains in between their teeth. That looks like poor oral hygiene to me. I think Scottish men are hot until they open their mouths and show their teeth. I was in England a few years ago and on the news they were discussing fluoride being put in the water. There were parents freaking out because they thought it was going to kill their children. I’m a chemist and there is no way that small amount of fluoride is going to kill the kids. Bottom line, I think its lack of fluoride and poor oral hygiene. If you go to the dentist and have your teeth cleaned twice a year, brush at least twice a day and floss each time your teeth will look nice.