Title Making the American Mouth : Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century.

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Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (242 pages).
Series	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
	Critical issues in health and medicine.
Contents	Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: American Dental Hygiene: "Small Flags Attached to Toothbrushes May Be Waved"; Chapter 2: Diet and the Dental Critique of American Life: "We Boast of Our Civilization, But We Starve Our Children"; Chapter 3: "Like a Sugar-Coated Pill": Defining American Dentistry Abroad; Chapter 4: "This National Stupidity": American Dental Economics in the 1930s and 1940s; Chapter 5: Behind the Fluorine Curtain; Chapter 6: The "Satisfaction of Dentistry" and the End of Public Health; Chapter 7: The Look of the American Mouth; Epilogue; Notes.
	IndexAbout the Author.
Summary	Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Perfect white, straight teeth. Making the American Mouth is at once a history of U.S. dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and addresses the ways dentists worked to expand that accessand improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, Making the American Mouth describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, midcentury social movements fo.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) and index.
Subject	Dental public health -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Dentistry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Dental public health.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
	MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
	MEDICAL -- History.
	Dental public health. (OCoLC)fst00890562
	Dentistry. (OCoLC)fst00890633
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: 9780813545356
ISBN	9780813547114 (electronic bk.)
	0813547113 (electronic bk.)

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