Healthiest Teeth of Europe

Which country in Europe has the healthiest teeth, according to the Healthiest Teeth Index?

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Map showing which countries in Europe have the healthiest teeth.

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Qunomedical has made an index of European countries in which they rate them based on the quality of their dental care, the Healthiest Teeth Index. In this index, European countries were rated on several indicators related to dental health:

DMFT (Decayed, Missing due to caries, and Filled Teeth in the permanent teeth of 12 year olds)
Dentists per 100,000 people
Dental schools
Alcohol consumption
Smokers
Sugar consumption
Community fluoridation

Now, sadly there isn’t a good recent study that has collected information about the actual dental health of a large number of European citizens. The Healthiest Teeth Index is far from perfect, but is probably one of the better ones out there so far. It mostly looks at factors that might predict the condition of people’s teeth. A low number of dentist and dental schools, could result in poor dental health care. High sugar consumption, could result in more cavities and therefore a poorer dental health. As I said, could, not will. So, I would advise you to take the data on this map with a grain of salt.

Which European country has the healthiest teeth? That would be Italy, with a score of 100. Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the UK also score pretty high.

At the bottom, is Croatia with a score of 0. Slovakia, Latvia and Bulgaria also have a very low score.

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6 responses to “Healthiest Teeth of Europe”

ain’t giving mah fuking name

Dec 9, 2024 at 1:58 pm

THERE’S NO WAY THAT CROATIA IS THIS BAD

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Emily

Aug 13, 2024 at 8:36 pm

A very weird way to measure the dental health… Italian people smoking as hell getting 100? Something has gone wrong here… Also what really matters is how the hygiene is, not how many dentists there are… also no one took into consideration if those people for ex. UK can even afford the dental care… Anyway this is the biggest joke I’ve ever seen when it comes to an “index”…

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Michele Recchia

Apr 25, 2022 at 9:16 am

I am proud to be an Italia dentist then! Even if I am not sure Italy scores that well, we are focused at our dental practice in Verona on children and early detection of caries and in the elderlies on preventing tooth loss and cancer screening.

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Michele R

Apr 25, 2022 at 9:15 am

I am proud to be an Italia dentist then! Even if I am not sure Italy scores that well, we are focused at our dental practice in Verona on children and early detection of caries and in the elderlies on preventing tooth loss and cancer screening.

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Jim Kavanaugh

Apr 18, 2022 at 10:51 am

The reasoning behind this map is appalling, and it is being shared across the web as being more or less factual. Fake news at it’s finest.

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Dentists per 100,000 people – Landgeist

Oct 22, 2021 at 2:32 pm

[…] index of European countries in which they rate them based on the quality of their dental care, the Healthiest Teeth Index. This index however, is more of a prediction on people’s dental health based on several […]

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