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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12399151/Pressure-perfect-teeth-young-people-spend-average-4-000-cosmetic-dental-procedures.html
Pressure to have perfect teeth sees young people spend average
sums of £4,000 on unnecessary cosmetic dental procedures
One in ten 25-34 year olds spent over £25,000 on teeth treatment
survey found
Only a third were able to pay upfront with many getting into
debt for surgery
. . .
Hate to say it, but human teeth aren't supposed
to be day-glo white ... to get THAT effect requires
a LOT of chemicals, treatments, iffy glue-in bits
and especially MONEY.
In the USA the big thing is "student debt", but in
the UK it seems to be DENTAL debt that'll weigh
people down for years/decades.
Ok, admittedly, British dental health has long
been an international joke. It's the sugar and all
the damned TEA. That'll make your teeth look like
the urinal at a country truck-stop. (for UK
audiences a "truck stop" is a stop-over point
dedicated to those who drive the commercial
BIG lorries as a career, largely as independent
contractors - a somewhat rough crowd. In the USA
we are talking 2-3000 mile deliveries, large
quantities of food-like substances, beer,
ageing prostitutes and amphetamines because the
sooner they deliver the more the profit).
My dentist told the tale of a patient who wanted
"perfect" teeth. There is a color-scale used in
the USA - and the patient demanded THE whitest
shade (despite the staff attempting to dissuade).
Well, he GOT it - at great expense - and his teeth
were so white they looked just "un-natural",
freakish, kinda scary.
Yes, it was a case of "body dysphoria", kind of
like the anorexics who are convinced they "look
fat" even though they actually look like inmates
at a NAZI death-camp. Fortunately this kind of
dysphoria is not a threat to life - but only to
the BANK ACCOUNT.
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