Alan wrote:
Many people of a certain age have a mouth full of fillings because NHS
dentists were paid on the number of fillings they performed. As a
result, on every dentist visit a filling was required irrespective of
any problem with the teeth.

That may explain why I have all my baby teeth filled, but haven't had a
filling caused by anything other than broken teeth due to weakness caused by
previous fillings since I went to uni.

:-(