Poland: worst teeth in the world?

My sister's in dental school claims Polish peoples teeth aren't bad at all, Asians (Orientals) by far have the worst teeth according to her. It's probably genes and diet. Black peoples teeth appear to be the brightest and healthiest (It could be the surrounding complexion making it look like that)

It's not just juice but milk can also rot a baby's teeth but it's only if you give an infant a bottle of milk to sleep with. It's because the saliva in the mouth dries out at night and saliva plays a role in controlling plaque causing bacteria in infants. If an infant is old enough to cut his first tooth, substitute water for the juice or milk if he must have a nighttime bottle.

Flouride in water is a bad idea because it causes brain damage.

Does "without painkillers" mean "without anaesthesia"? My mum says that used to be an option back in the day, to save money, but these days??


Surely you must have read the lame "Polish women are <fill in stereotype here> " threads? At least you can learn something new on this one ;)

Begs the question too, could I maybe get a really good deal, say 10zl, in a perversely abnormal & totally filthy dental practice if there was loads of fuss involved?

The problem was first noticed in 1970s. I remember fluoride campaigns in my school. Once or twice a year we had to bring our toothbrushes to school and the dentist put some substance onto them and we had to brush our teeth in the school bathrooms.

One day, a lot of pupils in my class forgot to bring toothbrushes and, scared of possible consequences, we ran to a nearby shop during the break and bought them.

Can you imagine that? :):):):)

PS. I still have all my own teeth.

And when I have my teeth drilled from time to time (once in 3-4 years?), I always refuse the local anasthesia. I want to feel this pain as it is.

Am I sick? :):):):):)

me too and i have the receipt to prove it.

Still an option in private places if you really want to save some money - though the cost is minimal, as far as I know...

As much as you want is free if you're under the public system, though.


You think I visit such places? ;)

Though I reckon you could easily go down to 50zl or less in a really crap dentist in the middle of nowhere. I wouldn't fancy it though!

Worst teeth in the world? Eh, no.

I haven`t seen such teeth in Poland yet.



teethpictures.org/2009/10/meth-teeth-mouth.html

Looks like the Predator ;)

Well if people in Poland would go to a dentist regularly for a check up/cleaning then their teeth would look better. Buuut, no one wants to spend money on that, they'd rather spend it on useless stuff.

I get my teeth checked every 6 months and i must say they're almost perfect in every way.

One thing i don't like about the chart is that is focuses on 12 year olds - what the hell??

Getting teeth cleaned is also good for the heart.

Can't argue with the chart.

Here's a close up view of my relative's mouth. Notice the teeth's resemblance to corn on the cob. At his/her age (no name mentioned) they're lucky to still own their own teeth :)

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Polish people do go to the dentist. Haven't you seen all the adults with braces? They can afford them now but probably 20 years ago it wasn't possible. I have good teeth, but I also had braces at 10 years old, wisdom teeth removed at all kinds of stuff- but my parents were in the military so we had 80% coverage- it makes a huge difference because dental work in Canada is not cheap.

My grandmother, who grew up in England before she immigrated, remembers how she had all her teeth removed when she was 16 and fitted for false teeth. She said her teeth weren't even bad but it was just something they used to do back then.

Wow I am shocked. I go to my dentist office daily to look at this chart!!!!! OMG how could this happen??!?! i am completely blown away?!?!?! IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME SORT OF OTHER BULLSHIT INDEX FOR ME TO LOOK AT!!! LIKE DRIVEWAY CLEANLINESS OR DUST MITE POPULATION GROWTH. Please GIVE ME A BREAK

20 years ago braces were unknown in Poland.
I remember the late 90s and stories about teachers thinking that's a kind of jewellery :D

I yearn for the day when i can dilly around about oral hygiene in Poland. But do we not owe it to our ancestors to remind people about the cruelty of the partitions of Poland?

So we can assume then that any report/chart or whatever that shows Poles or Poland in a positive light will also be ridiculed & dismissed by you too - yes?

Don`t be silly. My older sister used to wear braces in 1970s. That was nothing special, even in communism. Polish industry or private enterpreneurs produced this stuff. Also false teeth.

The real problem was getting good toothpaste with fluoride. In early 1980s my parents had to buy tooth powder because the paste was unavailable.

I remember most of my class was wearing those plastic things which were pretty dreadful to wear (dried your mouth, made you unalble to speak clearly) and were not helping really or maybe after a few long years of wearing it nonstop. Then at the end of the 90s braces started to be widely advertised. I told my parents that there is such an alternative, which I read about on a youth magazine. That was the first time when I heard about it in Poland, earlier I only saw it on American movies.

I mean.... I will admit that I had a Herbst appliance and braces on for a total of 3+ years and about a billion trips to the dentist when I was younger (several teeth pulled out, a billion cavities despite the fact I cared for my teeth, etc etc), but I'm surprised that Poland has the worst statistics haha

That is the heritage of past generations` negligence I was talking about.

Having bad teeth because your ancestors didn't brush seems to smack of the discredited Lamarckian theory of acquired hereditary characteristics. How do scientists explain it?

Typical Polish blame culture! lol

I don`t know. I said it might be rubbish.
But I talked to a Russian woman from Petersburg. She said that the city`s contemporary Russian young women`s bad teeth are the sad legacy of Nazi blockade of Lenigrad in 1940s during which 900.000 people starved to death while others suffered irreparable loss of health, including scurvy etc.

Sorry, I have editorial tendencies.


Woww...

many polish people have completely a$$ed out teeth.

it always amazes me when i'm in poland to see teenagers with horribly crooked teeth. what, their parents don't think to themselves that maybe they need braces????

i mean, when your 14 year old kid has discolored teeth, all crooked, why don't you take the kid to the dentist and get that $hit fixed?!

it's one of two things. either the people simply don't value healthy teeth or they can't afford it. from the stories i've heard it's a combination of both. why else would a loving parent allow their children to grow up with horrid teeth.

when i was a teenager, nearly everybody in school once they turned 11 or 12 got braces. it was almost a right of passage. people almost expected to see you in braces by the time you were 12 years old.

parents pay all that money into a socialized health system in poland yet most of their children do not have healthy mouths.

Do the dentists in Poland offer payment plans like they do in the U.S.? Americans can get their teeth straightened and fixed because of the low monthly payments.

I have heard that frequent starving is thought to cause smaller stature in subsequent generations, but this makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, as smaller people require less food, perhaps bad teeth are an unfortunate side-effect of this phenomenon.

And many Jews get now born without golden teeth because they were removed from them by Germans in Auschwitz.Anyway I have noticed that some Polki have strange teeth shapes like too elongated or protruding or shrewd but this can be sign that adds grace and likeability.For sure they lack horse teeth but sometimes tiger quality is expected.