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Sunday, May 20, 2007

EDINBURGH - City's gleaming performance in dental survey

City's gleaming performance in dental survey
EDINBURGH has emerged top of a survey to find the city with the best oral health.
Only one per cent of interviewees in the British Dental Health Foundation study said their partner had bad breath, and less than one fifth reported they had a friend or colleague with the problem.
In contrast, 53 per cent of people in Cambridge said their partner had bad breath. r Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, said: "This is excellent news and suggests that people in Edinburgh have been listening to warnings that they need to improve their oral healthcare. "Nine out of ten people are now brushing their teeth twice a day and that is higher than anywhere else in the country. "However, these stats still show that around 15 per cent of people know someone with bad breath and one in ten are only cleaning once per day so there is still plenty to do.
"People should brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, cut down how often they have sugary foods and drinks and visit the dentist regularly."
One hundred Edinburgh residents were interviewed for the survey, and one quarter said English football legend David Beckham has the nicest smile.

100 surveyed - not much of a survey. Still, makes a change from the usual negative reports about Scottish dental statistics.

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