Teeth
Subtitle: the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America
By: Mary Otto
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781620971444
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Cost of Dental care; Dental care; Dental economics; Dental hygiene
Other titles: Story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America
Description: 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.
Notes: Beauty -- Suffering -- Emergencies -- The world beneath our noses -- The birth of American dentistry -- Separate lives -- Adventurers and auxiliaries -- The system -- Color lines -- Deamonte's world -- Riding into the epidemic -- Sons and daughters of Chapin Harris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.