Teeth : the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America / Mary Otto.
Otto, Mary, author.
2016
RK58.5 .O88 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Teeth : the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America / Mary Otto.
Author Otto, Mary, author.
ISBN 9781620971444 (hardcover)
1620971445 (hardcover)
Published New York : The New Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description x, 291 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number RK58.5 .O88 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 617.600973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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