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Old 4th January 2008, 21:55
Scotsgait Scotsgait is offline
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Originally Posted by thedailyflash View Post
i read years ago most scots get all teeth puled out by age 16 because they have bad teeth

true?
No, and I doubt that it was true even at the worst points in our dental history.

Things have improved tremendously, but here is still room for further progress. This study (albeit 6 or 7 years old) highlights how there there were 25% fewer teeth extracted per patient and 30% fewer per dentist per week between 1984 and 1999.
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