Amalgam fillings and B12

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The figures say that in the 1970s 96% of children had decay in their adult teeth by the time they were teenagers. http://pocketdentistry.com/6-diagnosis-and-prevention-of-dental-caries/

So anyone not needing fillings in the 60s and 70s would have very much been in the minority. That is nothing to do with how dentists were or were not paid, it is a statistic replicated world wide.

In the UK the decay rate started to fall in the 70s as fluoride toothpaste became more widely used. It fell similarly in other countries as fluoride toothpaste and treatments became widely used.

The payment system for dentists treating children on the NHS was exactly the same for dentists from the 60s until the early 90s. So any change in treatment given was due to the well documented and researched fall in dental decay in the UK as well as the rest of the world from the 70s onwards.

With the documented decay rates of the 60s and 70s in children it would be an unusual child who did not need fillings that is nothing to do with how dentists were paid or were motivated , it was that decay , pre fluoride toothpaste, was almost universal in every country in the world that sugar was freely available.