Teeth : : the Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
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Part I. Bad teeth -- Beauty -- Suffering -- Emergencies -- The world beneath our noses -- Part II. The dental art -- The birth of American dentistry -- Separate lives -- Adventurers and auxiliaries -- The system -- Color lines -- Part III. A sentinel event -- Deamonte's world -- Riding into the epidemic -- Sons and daughters of Chapin Harris.
Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.
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Great Read for anyone in the dental fields
submitted by Mary Grace Kennedy on June 15, 2021, 8:22pm
I read this as a part of a class assignment and I'm very grateful that I did. Mary Otto treats this with the heart of someone who cares and the practicality of someone who knows. This book describes the disparities in dental treatment and the policies and politics behind it. Its a touching book that will leaves the readers wanting to fight for change. It is a book I would highly recommend for anyone in the dental field and even those who aren't.
PUBLISHED
New York : The New Press, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: x, 291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781620971444
1620971445
SUBJECTS
Dental care.
Dental care, Cost of.
Dental hygiene.
Dental economics.