Women Best At Maintaining Oral Health, Dentists Reveal

Thu, 20 Mar 2008

Eighty per cent of dentists in the UK believe women top men when it comes to looking after their teeth, according to a new survey .

A survey carried out by Orbit Complete in association with the British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) revealed that 95 per cent of the 100 dentists polled agreed that women were more likely to visit the dentist regularly than their male counterparts.

The study, which also included the view of 4,064 members of the public, also found that one in five (19 per cent) people only visit a dentist if it is an emergency, while 8 per cent admitted to never seeing their local dentist.

Just over 40 per cent of those polled in the survey believed a visit to the dentist was out of their budget, 28 per cent admitted to being ‘scared’ of a trip to the dentist and 12 per cent cited poor NHS access as their man reason for neglecting a visit .

Almost half (47 per cent) were found to have spent money on cosmetic dentistry, including white fillings, with the average spend being £302 and over £450 for people in London .

BDHF chief executive Nigel Carter said: "Since the last dental census of this size took place nearly a decade ago, consumers are recognising that dental health is important, however it is still too low down on the health agenda, and in particular there is a level of ignorance about how oral health can be linked to overall health ."
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