Who is most likely to have filled teeth?
Women attend the dentist more regularly than men and continue to have more fillings, an average of 7.3 compared with 6.6. Again, the largest difference in who has filled teeth, occurred for those aged between 45 and 64. People in these age groups who attended the dentist for check-ups, either on an occasional or regular basis, had significantly more teeth than those who only attended when they had a dental problem. The result of saving all these teeth has been that dentists have filled rather than extracted many of them, and people who attended for dental check-ups showed that benefit by ending up with most teeth and most fillings (Table 2).
