Why British people have yellow teeth?

@miyara (520)
Philippines
October 17, 2006 7:55am CST
Is it true or just a saying?
4 responses
@jend80 (2071)
• United Kingdom
17 Oct 06
it's true - blame NHS dentists :-) or the lack of them - soon there'll be nothing for people who can't afford to go private (how long before the res of the NHS starts going the same way) we tend to be scared of going to the dentists and slack at detnal hygiene i.e brushing teeth properly etc. going by my experiances it's traditional (or at least it was in the 80's) for dentists to scare children.
@jend80 (2071)
• United Kingdom
17 Oct 06
a whole book extract about our relationship to teeth http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,534991,00.html
@jend80 (2071)
• United Kingdom
17 Oct 06
+ tea/cofee & nicotine staining.
@Stiletto (4579)
18 Oct 06
Absolutely true - finding an NHS dentist is a nightmare and going private costs a fortune. A dentist told me once that the whiter your teeth are the weaker they are. He was talking about natural white teeth though - not bleached ones although I believe that bleaching weakens them as well. I'm terrified of the dentist and I'm 45. Still have all my own teeth though!
• United States
19 Oct 09
deffinately true. It's from all of them taking down all that semen in their nasty pastey faced mouths. Brits have to lear to stop drinking semen so much, men and women alike. If they didn't drink so much semen then their teeth would not be as yellow and the ghuys might get rid of that gay girly accent. By the way f**k the queen!
20 Jan 10
God, you sound a right bloody charmer
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
17 Oct 06
Maybr they drink alot of coffee or smoke alot af cigerettes.
@indiandevil (2410)
• Canada
17 Oct 06
I thought yellowed teeth was only caused by smoking,coffee and tea stains?