Author: Mary Otto
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1620972816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An NPR Best Book of 2017 "[Teeth is] . . . more than an exploration of a two-tiered system—it is a call for sweeping, radical change." —New York Times Book Review "Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America's mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. 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. Otto's subjects include the pioneering dentist who made Shirley Temple and Judy Garland's teeth sparkle on the silver screen and helped create the all-American image of "pearly whites"; Deamonte Driver, the young Maryland boy whose tragic death from an abscessed tooth sparked congressional hearings; and a marketing guru who offers advice to dentists on how to push new and expensive treatments and how to keep Medicaid patients at bay. In one of its most disturbing findings, Teeth reveals that toothaches are not an occasional inconvenience, but rather a chronic reality for millions of people, including disproportionate numbers of the elderly and people of color. Many people, Otto reveals, resort to prayer to counteract the uniquely devastating effects of dental pain. Otto also goes back in time to understand the roots of our predicament in the history of dentistry, showing how it became separated from mainstream medicine, despite a century of growing evidence that oral health and general bodily health are closely related. Muckraking and paradigm-shifting, Teeth exposes for the first time the extent and meaning of our oral health crisis. It joins the small shelf of books that change the way we view society and ourselves—and will spark an urgent conversation about why our teeth matter.
Author: Wilbur F. Litch
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9781527829800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The American System of Dentistry, Vol. 1: In Treatises by Various Authors; Regional and Comparative Dental Anatomy, Dental Histology, and Dental Pathology Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery; Demonstrator of Physiology in the Jefferson Medical College, Phila delphia. Cryer, M. H. M.D., D. D. S. Chief of Clinic of Oral Surgery, medico-chirurgical College of Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Richard A. Glenner
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A "historical-sociological account intended to introduce the reader to major components of a dentist's career and how it grew out of American society."
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 1142
ISBN-13:
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