>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/alicethomson/3553839/Bad-teeth-the-new-British-disease.html
>http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6863228&page=1
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8188828/Britains-bad-teeth-on-the-mend-figures-show.html
>
>Snippet:
>Healthy teeth used to be seen as a sign of a modern society. Now because of our first-world diets and third-world dental care, we have 19th-century teeth. Britain has to take its teeth seriously again or we will soon be back to wooden dentures.

I see the Holzer link machine has hummed back into action.

That last one said things are getting better.

Anyway does it matter. Toothache never killed anyone.

BTW I pulled out my last baby tooth about two years ago. I suppose that little tooth would never have survived so long in the US.
I now have a gap which I am fine with. Its somewhere to park my tongue :-)