She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post, where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care and poverty. Rife with discovery, and spur to social action, Mary Otto’s book is a beautifully readable and essential testament for these times.” - congressman jamie raskin (md-8) is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. It should be read by anyone concerned about the class divide in the U.S.” -Dale Maharidge, author of And Their Children After Them, winner of the 1990 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize “I can’t remember the last time I read a book that so brilliantly yokes physiological, political and cultural systems. Teeth breaks new ground in the canon of books about poverty. The lack of dental care for millions of Americans is a national shame. Mary Otto’s unflinching work on the miserable state of oral health in America gnaws at you like a toothache.” “Mary Otto hits us right in the face-our teeth-with this important book. praiSe FOr teeth social science “Mesmerizing and important. 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. Muckraking and paradigm-shifting, Teeth exposes for the first time the extent and meaning of our oral health crisis. 5.625 × 8.5 SPINE: 1 that oral health and general bodily health are closely related.
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