I have been in England. They have few braces and many teeth missing. It is true. I worked at Molesworth and some other bases around there.
Maybe the ‘National Health’ ain’t so great! :)
1—Braces are widely used and widely available (I wore one myself when younger). Complete nonsense.
2-Many teeth?. Exaggeration methinks.
3—When did you work here?. And even if your British area and era had bad teeth, that dosent equate all British teeth were bad. Anymore than bad toothed crims on COPS means all Americans have bad teeth.
The article is clear that UK teeth WERE behind the US, but that the bad teeth myth is now just that, and has been for a few decades.