After doing my research, I found that the British people see anything related to dental aesthetics from a different view than the Americans. From an American perspective, Teeth are everything. In other words they are very much so treated like jewels. The people of Great Britain put less emphasis on the appearance of their teeth. British teeth are not bad, but irregular by American standards. Different countries put different emphasis on body parts. What’s considered normal in one country may be seen as abnormal in the next. After researching you are able to understand and empathize with the cultural difference. Americans classify anything that isn’t perfect in the mouth as normal. Whereas, the people of Great Britain would rather focus on every other aspect of health, than to cosmetically change something that they were born with and consider to be a natural feature of the human body.
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