Only 45% of French people go to the dentist once a year. However, oral pathologies are frequent. At the top of the ranking, it is gingivitis that kills the most.
Whether large or small, the French obviously dread dental appointments. A study of more than 6,000 people (1) published on Monday reveals that 82% of French people do not go to the dentist more than once a year.
In detail, they are 37% to visit their dentist less than once a year and 45% only once a year. However, the French apparently need to take more care of their oral health. Because mouth aches turn out to be frequent pathologies. For example, 91% of dentists and orthodontists surveyed experience bleeding gums (gingivitis) in their patients at least once a week. But on the chair, only 49% of patients say they are affected by this inflammation of the gum, which remains the most common sore mouth, before canker sores (81%), dry mouth (80%), bad breath (77 %) and finally injuries to the oral mucosa (69%).
Mouth pain affects women more than men
And obviously, women are not spared from these oral pathologies. French women are even more likely to be affected than men (53% against 47%). Finally, all generations are confronted with it, from the youngest (21% for 18-29 year olds) to the oldest (23% for 60-75 year olds).
Dentists, champions of illegal fee overruns
However, dental care is also the first aid that the French say they give up because of their cost. And a study by the Citizen Observatory of Remainder Dependent, created by the Interassociative Collective on Health (CISS), the magazine 60 Million Consumers and the company Santéclair, recently revealed “unacceptable drifts” in the practices of dentists.
35 million euros in excess fees were claimed from the French by their dentist in 2012 for caries care, scaling, devitalization or even extractions. However, these are routine care whose rates are framed by Social Security and which should only be subject to fee overruns in the event of emergency care or other exceptional situation.
(1) A large study on oral diseases was carried out by Arcane Research for Les Laboratoires Expanscience. 6,090 French people, were interviewed using the quota method, by Internet, between January 23 and 30, 2014. This sampling base was perfectly representative of the French population aged 18 to 75 in terms of sex, age, socio-professional category, location (UDA regions, degree of urbanization) and household composition.
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