Title Teeth : the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America / Mary Otto.

Publication Info.	New York : The New Press, 2016.
	©2017

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Description	x, 291 pages ; 22 cm
Note	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and index.
Summary	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.
Subject	Dental care.
	Dental care, Cost of.
	Dental hygiene.
	Dental economics.
	Dental Care -- economics.
	Healthcare Disparities.
	Tooth Diseases -- complications.
	Dental Care -- history.
	Poverty.
	Health Policy.
	United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services.
Other Form:	Online version: Otto, Mary, author. Teeth. New York : New Press, 2016 9781620972816 (DLC) 2016043002
ISBN	9781620971444 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
	1620971445 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)

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