No, I don’t have statistics to back this up. When I mentioned “dental care,” what I really meant was that many people seem to have poor dental hygiene. In my personal experience, I’ve encountered more people with very bad breath in the UK than anywhere else I’ve been. Whenever the topic of brushing teeth comes up, I often see people here making excuses for not doing it regularly. Speaking from my very personal experience, I have only ever heard excuses about brushing teeth from British population. Not all, of course. But there is a pattern here. I don't know why.

What I find ironic is that this is a country with far greater access to oral healthcare than most of the world, yet that access doesn’t mean much if people don’t make use of it. After all, what’s the point of having a toothbrush if it never gets used? I hope you understand what I mean.

I come from what many would call a third-world country. Even though we don’t have free healthcare or easy access to dental services, we still do the basics very well brushing and flossing our teeth. When I was in elementary school, we even brought toothbrushes to school, and teachers would have us brush our teeth after meals. It was simply part of personal hygiene, just like showering or keeping the rest of our bodies clean.