• enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        25 days ago

        I’ve not researched this, but I’ve heard it’s because mouth health is prioritised over aesthetics.

        That basically means: no whitening.

        Teeth are naturally yellowish

        • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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          25 days ago

          also, dentistry is more accessible in the UK; free treatment is available to a bigger chunk of the population, and private dental care is cheaper as well.

          So, in terms of severe complications stemming from lack of dental care, the US is worse, but the obsession with straightening & whitening means that people who have got it together enough to appear in the media generally have superficially nicer teeth.

          It’s like most things in America - if you’re doing ok then it’s great, and if you’re not then the rest of the country just pretends you don’t exist.

      • don@lemmy.ca
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        25 days ago

        I’ve heard that myth before, never see any evidence in favor of it, not that I can be arsed to look.

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      24 days ago

      The UK has free Healthcare and better quality of life so I’m pretty sure their teeth are better than most americans

      Logically when you think of it this way that bullshit excuse of a derogatory assumption made by anericans goes out the window

      americans lack education about the world outside of america and are so narcissistic and think they’re better than everyone else that they don’t even bother to try and learn about the outside world and when they do learn of the outside world and other countries having better quality of life than them they make up bullshit mental gymnastics and deny reality because they can’t accept that

      So no your bullshit derogatory misinformed opinion is simply not true and is just a stereotype because you americans like to bully other countries like the schoolyard bully that likes to pick on others