Teeth

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  1. In NL, you have to pay dental insurance separately from the main health insurance and dental is optional and can be deactivated. This leads to some poor people not getting dental coverage and skipping going to the dentist for a year to save up on insurance fees. I prefer it being paid out of taxes or being lumped with the main health insurance rather than this dental vs general health care separate payment system.

  2. I know it’s easier to just write “teeth” and post an image from instagram, but we don’t get too much out of that practice.

    [Here](https://www.qunomedical.com/en/research/healthiest-teeth-index) you can see the source for this index.

    It takes into account many things, including:

    – alcohol and sugar consumption

    – smoking prevalence

    – dental facilities

    – average number of teeth that have been decayed, lost (missing) or filled-in at the age of 12.

    Average number of teeth decayed at age 12 also doesn’t say much about the dental health of one population. It could also mean that Croatia has much broader child dental care, with child dentists in every neighbourhood (which is the case).

    Also, differences are certainly not to that big that would warrant putting Croatia at zero and Italy at 100.

    In fact, Croatia with index of 0 has more dentists per 100,000 people than Italy with index of 100.

  3. How the fuck is this calculated: We Croats are in the [same data](https://www.qunomedical.com/en/research/healthiest-teeth-index) 4th in dental condition, 5th in number of dentists per 100k people, 18th in number of dental schools, 4th Alcohol Consumption(as less then others), and only categories we are bad at is Sugar and Smoking while at the same time we are not even last in those… how the fuck are we last? lol

  4. What is this research based on? I mean, zero? So absolutely no one has a healthy set of teeth here? Amazing

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