ORAL CARE
DR BEN ATKINS is a dental practitioner and clinical director of Revive Dental Care in Manchester, and a trustee at the Oral Health Foundation
A recent survey by the Oral Health Foundation discovered one in three of us don’t brush our teeth twice a day, while 7 million Britons regularly skip brushing altogether, citing a ‘lack of time’. It’s cause for concern, but as a nation our oral health has improved a lot; in the late 1960s, 37 per cent of everyone over the age of 16 had full dentures! But we’ve still got a long way to go – 90 per cent of us don’t know how to brush our teeth properly, and five per cent of us never visit the dentist.