Posted on 09/29/2013 12:50:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bulimia?
Not true. In Britain all dental work is covered by the NHS, but the majority of Practices are now private and the majority of people have private provision.
Congratulations. You’re the first to bring up the utterly predictable meme about Brits having bad dentition. I’m only surprised it took until post #9
I would have thought athletes were mostly on very controlled diets, so fast foods were probably not on their menu. In any case, so what? Why should fast food neccesarily cause dental problems? On the contrary its usually all these “healthy” fruit juices that cause tooth erosion.
Teeth, naturally, are an off-white slightly yellow ivory color. If you see someone with bright white teeth that is almost certainly down to artificial treatment. So how “beautiful” is that?
Vitamin deficiency and sticky foods can be wearing on the teeth over time.
Rather uncalled for, I think.
The main problem with fast food is that people eat too much of it, to the exclusion of anything else. But then if you eat too much of any food to the exclusion of anything else you'd be in trouble, even organic wheat grass soya lattes. :)
Ivory is essentially animal tooth material - dentine and enamel. And the natural color of ivory is, well, ivory. People with pure bright white teeth have almost certainly had them artificially whitened. It’s essentially the equivalent of dying your hair or painting your nails or putting mascara on your eyelashes. And if people want to do that, fine, I have no problems. I just object to those who use such artificial enhancements looking down on those of us who choose not to.
Hi Nick
In fact our research was on all nationalities of athletes at the London 2012 Games - there was a wide geographic spread. If anyone is particularly keen to read the study, we have published it on Open Access so no subscription is needed http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2013/09/24/bjsports-2013-092891.full. Otherwise, the BBC news item was a good summary http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24298109
Thanks so much for your interest and glad it has sparked some discussion about oral health.
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