British teeth have never really been that bad, we have just always taken more interest in the health of our teeth rather than the aesthetic look of them. It is mainly young people with good dental hygiene, where as older people usually have lots of fillings. Sometime in the 1980?s attitudes began to improve and braces became more common.

Even I had to have braces to fix my overbite and to straighten up my teeth. The process wasn?t that bad, I had to have a mould of my teeth made up and then had the brace fitted which took a while as I was having the different parts cemented onto my teeth. The next step was that the wires were fitted and tightened. This was the worst part of the procedure because I was left with a constant pulling feeling on my teeth, which gave me a dull ache for the first few days. The pain disappeared after a couple of days and I just had to learn to live with them.

The braces sorted out my teeth and I?m glad I had braces for that year or so as I can imagine they could have caused a few problems throughout my later life. In recent years dental care in Great Britain has developed. Teeth whitening is the latest craze with everything from whitening strips to laser whitening being used at the dentist and at home. Another development is the use of dental plans by dentist practises. These are practise branded dental payment plans that allow NHS patients to use private dentists at a reasonable rate.