WE LIVE longer and lead healthy lives, but we are more likely to die in an accident and our children suffer more rotten teeth.

This year's NHS performance indicators for Hillingdon Health Authority reveal interesting changes in the lives of the borough's residents.

A Hillingdon man is likely to live to the age of 76 and two months, up six months from last year and one year more than the national average of 75 years and two months.

But he still dies younger than Hillingdon woman, who, on average, makes it to 80 years and eight months, five months more than last year and seven months more than the national average.

Unhappiness has remained steady in the borough with 8.6 suicides per 100,000 people but that is lower than the UK average of 9.4.

The number of teenage mothers is down from 44 to 43.7 out of every 1,000 girls aged 15-17, slightly fewer than the national average of 44.7 pregnancies.

And when a baby is born it has a better than average chance of life. Five out of every 1,000 infants die in their first year, 0.7 fewer than the national average.

But it's not all good news. When these babies grow up into toddlers they will have bad teeth. Hillingdon dentists pulled 1.5 teeth from five-year-old children in the borough compared to the average of 1.4 teeth.

And when that toddler grows into an adult, they are just as likely as the rest of the UK to die in an accident with 16.3 out of every 100,000 residents dying unexpectedly.