The study also showed a socioeconomic difference between the two countries with poorer people in the US having worse teeth than their British counterparts.
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They wanted to find out the number of missing teeth, adults perceptions of their oral health (self-rated oral health), and oral impacts on daily life such as pain, difficulty eating, avoiding smiling and social effects.
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Co-author Dr. Richard Watt said, “For at least 100 years there has been a popular belief in the US that Americans have far superior teeth to the English”.
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Watt and his colleagues compared data from almost 16,000 Brits and 19,000 Yanks that had been collected by the English Adult Dental Health Survey (ADHS) and the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
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Americans have long teased British people for having bad teeth, but a new study shows Americans actually have more dental problems.
This is the first study to assess levels of oral health inequalities between the US and United Kingdom, but other studies have investigated the ways in which socioeconomic factors affect oral health.
However, no study had directly compared levels of oral health and oral health inequalities between England and the US. Furthermore, oral health across the American population was shown to be greatly unequal and have greater disparities compared to the British population.
“It’s hard to fully explain our results”, said Watt, “but economic inequalities in the States are greater than the U.K”. This could, however, be due to cultural differences.
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So while the study didn’t come right out and say, bluntly, that Americans are the ones with bad pearly whites, the Brits remained polite and concluded that the study presented a “mixed picture:” more of us had gaps in our smiles, and more of them complained about dental issues. Among people aged 25 to 64, Americans were found to have a higher number of missing teeth and edentulousness, while United Kingdom residents 65 years or older tended to have a greater number of missing teeth.
