Title: Making the American mouth : dentists and public health in the twentieth century /
Authors: Picard, Alyssa.
Year: 2009
Subjects: History, 20th Century; Public Health Dentistry history; Dental Care history; Dental public health United States Histor; Dentistry United States History; United States
Contents: American dental hygiene : "small flags attached to toothbrushes may be waved" -- Diet and the dental critique of American life : "we boast of our civilization, but we starve our children" -- "Like a sugar-coated pill" : defining American dentistry abroad -- "This national stupidity" : American dental economics in the 1930s and 1940s -- Behind the fluorine curtain -- The "satisfaction of dentistry" and the end of public health -- The look of the American mouth