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Q: Why don't many middle and upper class Chinese take good care of their teeth?
They obviously have the money to do it. Nothing's more ridiculous than some guy wearing a 200,000 RMB watch, driving a $100,000 black Audi (ugly as hell, but hey, it's his money), and having a mouth full of slime/ruined teeth. Can't they at least buy better teeth...?
This was so common everywhere in China. I could understand peasants having bad teeth (my wife's look perfect despite being a "peasant", and so do her mother's), but when you have the money to get them fixed... what the hell? Okay, maybe if they were Steve Buscemi...
10 years 39 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I think we asked the same thing about the British public not that long ago
You seem to assume that it's all middle and upper chinese that don't take care of their teeth. I've seen some that do.
Reading comprehension, sparky: 'many' does not mean 'all' or none, so he's making no such assumption.
I've wondered the same, hulk. Especially the little kids, who have tens of thousands of quai each year spent on English/music/dancing classes, but then the parents cant find a couple of hundred for a dentists visit. What's up with that?
Hulk:
I saw that too. Many of my students had rotted out teeth.
But then I saw the reason for that later on: some of those kids weren't really all that rich. Some of them would have to walk to the school, or come on a bicycle shared with their mother.
Generally people do not have dentistry in their mindset. I can understand the older generation, they've gone through times where food was scarce, I certainly would prioritize survival over good looking teeth, but now? I've seen several old people with teeth missing. A relative of ours, a woman in her mid-50-ies, good looking gal, but she is missing UL2. That doesn't exactly give a winning smile. But maybe I am being pretentious, or maybe it is because I come from a place where some foods need to be bitten into pieces, like a good piece of Mediterranean style bread that can put the front teeth at work.
As most other discussions on this forum, I think this one can be put down to lack of education (possibly spiced with some TCM hokum that it is bad for the body to see a dentist, not sure about that, but wouldn't be surprised as teeth problems cannot be detected by pulse-reading)
They're just waiting for them to rot away so they can replace them with gold teeth so they can have more "face" or in this case "mouth"!
Well to be fair the dentists here are vicious. I've never seen so much blood.
Hulk:
Getting an upvote from me for that post.
I went to a dentist to get my teeth whitened, because it was apparently about 300 RMB. Well, the guy wanted 3000 RMB, and I don't even pay that much in 'murica. I'm totally not going to pay that much for teeth whitening.
Anyway, when I sat down, you could see blood stains all over the dental room, including the seat... it was... frightening.
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maybe they pay more attention on other things ，such as dressing，traveling and cars
I would never go to a Chinese dentist, I live not far from HK and go there for anything related to my health.
