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03/12/ · Download file formats. Audio MP3on CD Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping "Mary Otto hits us right in the face—our teeth—with this important book. Teeth: The “Mesmerizing and important. 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 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 14/03/ · TEETH: THE STORY OF BEAUTY, INEQUALITY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ORAL HEALTH IN AMERICA Mary Otto, The New Press, March 14, , $ ISBN 08/03/ · �� Read Now �� Download. An NPR Best Book of that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society In this brilliant ... read more

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More than 35 million poor children are entitled by federal law to dental benefits under Medicaid, but more than half go without care. Only a tiny fraction work in federally funded safety net clinics. Approximately 49 million Americans live in communities that are federally designated as dental professional shortage areas. Medicare, the federal health care program that currently provides benefits to more than 55 million aged and disabled people, has never included coverage for routine dental care. In the seventeenth century, French philosopher René Descartes introduced a theory that changed the world. He uncoupled the indivisible spiritual human mind from the divisible working v iii PrEfACE machinery of the human anatomy, thus liberating scientific inquiry from religious dogma.

He also, it could be said, removed the head from the body. In the wake of Descartes, increasingly specialized healers began laying claim to parts of the body for study and treatment. For centuries, along with shaving and tonsuring, leeching and cupping, barber surgeons had counted tooth extractions among the deeply personal services they performed. But the teeth were worthy of science too, Pierre Fauchard, the eminent eighteenth- century surgeon-dentist, insisted. He advanced the idea that dentistry was a unique and important branch of surgery.

Cartesian dualism served its purpose, opening new possibilities for physiological exploration. Yet at the same time, medical research became more reductive and mechanistic, less personal and less holistic. Some have suggested that the formative influence of Descartes stubbornly persists in the ways the modern health care system fails to integrate care. It has been said that this gulf must be bridged to bring a more complete kind of health to America. surgeon general David Satcher in his landmark report, Oral Health in America, published in Systemic health and disease are mirrored in the components of our saliva. Our first permanent molars bear the time stamp of our births. Pain, loss of function, serious illness, and even death result from untreated oral conditions and offer harrowing reminders that the mouth is part of the body and that oral health is essential to overall health. Yet the separate, carefully guarded, largely private PrEfACE ix system that provides dental care in America can be enormously difficult to reach for those without mobility or money or adequate dental benefits.

This book began in , at the heart of that epidemic, at the bedside of a Maryland schoolboy who was dying of complications from an untreated dental infection. The story of the death of twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver, which appeared in the Washington Post, helped inspire reforms in Maryland and in Medicaid dental systems nationwide. This book provides a look into the insular world of dental care in America. It examines the enduring tension between the need of all Americans for dental services and the lack of services available to millions of us under the current system.

Its narrative seeks to explain why obtaining dental services may require a journey that some patients never manage to make. My reporting took me from Florida to Alaska, and in my travels, patients, providers, policy makers, researchers, and public health leaders spoke of their own experiences, their own journeys. Their stories were by turns agonizing, challenging, confounding, and hopeful. They described the raw physical suffering of disease and exquisite moments of understanding. They explained the intricacies of enormous government programs, the hidden worlds of microbiology, the vagaries of diagnostic coding. Some proudly defended the current system of providing dental care in America. Some described a vision for a transformed oral health care system— one that incentivizes disease prevention over drilling, that uses new kinds of teams to reach the millions currently not receiving oral health care, a system where dentists spend less time extracting and x PrEfACE more time healing and where patients break the cycle of disease and pain and loss.

Some spoke of bridging the gap between oral health and overall health. Some spoke of ending the silent epidemic. P ar t I BAD TEE TH 1 Beauty The mouth is a portal, an interface, an erogenous zone. It is our first connection with the world and our last. It is the domain of the breath, the self- expressing lips. The grotto of the tongue. The realm of the teeth. The teeth that are part animal, part mineral. The teeth, inlaid with jade by the ancient Mayans, still fetishized today. The teeth, rotting and aching at the dawn of agriculture, still tormenting today. The teeth that are whitened and straightened. The teeth that are amputated and thrown away. The teeth that endure longer than the bones, that withstand fires, floods, time. The teeth that identify us, scattered in deserts, buried in caves. The teeth keep a record of our lives, locked in their enamel.

They identify us even beyond the grave. And not one of them is bereaved. Your cheeks are like the halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. Across their short black cocktail dresses, each wore a sash bearing the name of a place in Maryland; Annapolis, Towson, College Park, Baltimore. They were bouncing in unison to the blare of an Iggy Azalea tune. Many of the beauties moved with certainty born of long experience on pageant runways, but this was the first pageant for a dark, slender contestant from Silver Spring, twenty-three-year-old Mamé Adjei. She was trying not to show her shyness. She had no fairy godmother. Her parents were far away.

The evening gown she brought for the final round had been sewn by a friend. She prepared for this pageant as she prepared for assignments back in college, doing her research, seeking out advice. She read and she trained in the ways of pageant walking and talking. She practiced the all-important pageant smile. The pageant smile, she knew, must shine, must radiate. It must never flag or falter, grow stiff or weary. In spite of intense anxiety, hunger, or boredom, the pageant smile must project brightness, allure, inexhaustible pleasure. So she trained the muscles in her small exotic face.

Her lips lifted into an enchanting bow. She trained holding the smile for one minute; five minutes; ten minutes; twenty, forty, sixty minutes. She was working in downtown Washington and she challenged herself to smile for the entire train ride home, out to the end of the line, where she lived with family guardians in a small apartment decorated with enigmatic African dolls. Her fellow passengers smiled back. She grew up in Ghana and Switzerland and Maryland, the daughter of African diplomats. She had to repeat a grade in elementary BE AuT y 5 school because of all the moving around. In her adolescence, her parents decided to leave her in Silver Spring, Maryland, with relatives. From then on, years elapsed between their visits. The way she explained it, she was raised by telephone. On some level, she felt abandoned.

She worked hard to excel. In high school she was on the track team and a cheerleader but she always felt alone. On this runway, in the sparkling lights, as the crowd of families and friends cheered for other contestants, she missed her mother and father badly. After graduating from college, she got an internship at a think tank on K Street in Washington, working for human rights. She thought sometimes about studying law. But she had done a little modeling, starting when she was six, posing for a church brochure. She always felt there was something exciting about facing the camera, about being photographed.

She decided to enter the Miss Maryland USA pageant. She figured that if she lost, she would apply to law school. The pageant started on a Friday and went on for two more days. On Saturday, the prospect of law school loomed large. Her smile nearly let her down. At a crucial moment, her facial muscles rebelled. Her mouth began to quiver. Her upper lip stuck to her fine white incisors. She had forgotten a most basic pageant rule. She had forgotten to put Vaseline on her front teeth. On this Sunday night, the final night, she remembered the Vaseline.

And again she took a breath. And again she glided forward, into the lights. And once again, she smiled. Some contestants were eliminated. Some kept bravely smiling, even as they left the stage. Others went with heads bent, like spent flowers. Adjei remained, among sixteen finalists, strutting in high heels, her dark skin glowing against a white swimsuit, her white teeth glowing against her red lipstick. She smiled as she walked forward and, as she turned away, she cast another lingering smile. Nine more women were eliminated in the bathing suit round. There were only five now. One was Adjei. What advice would she offer a young woman just arriving in America from a foreign country? The pageant host asked her if she had words for what she was feeling. Adjei walked the runway once again, wearing her new rhinestone tiara, clutching a huge bouquet of dark red roses against her golden breast. She won fitness and coaching sessions. Perfect skin. Perfect body. Of course the perfect smile, which comes down to perfect teeth.

She was muffled in a paisley scarf, a short jacket, slacks, and long boots, like a thousand other young working women, heading home at rush hour. She was quiet, thoughtful, tired, still trying to reconcile her full-time internship at the think tank with her new responsibilities as Miss Maryland USA. And she said she saw the chance to get her teeth improved as an opportunity that came with success. BE AuT y 7 A certain kind of smile is expected of people who are rising. She said she admired the music of an upstart rapper named J. Cole, a military brat turned college graduate known for his blend of skillful rhymes and social messages. Why do we always feel like we have to change ourselves? On their website, Drs. Linda and Chip Steel alluded to the rewards their patients might enjoy. A beautiful smile could be a gateway to the best things in life.

Finding your perfect job, meeting the perfect mate or just feeling good when you look in the mirror Sometimes, it all starts with a great smile! The office was there in the back, in the groundlevel basement of the house. There was a holiday wreath on the 8 Teeth door and, inside, burgundy wall-to-wall carpeting and a coffee table with an arrangement of artificial pomegranates. Behind the glass of the reception desk, arrayed upon the wall, there were framed glossy photos of many of the past Miss Maryland USAs and Miss Maryland Teen USAs who had their smiles perfected in the office. The receptionist asked her for her form and asked how to pronounce her name. She was ushered in for her appointment. In the waiting room, among the reading materials, was a book entitled Billion Dollar Smile.

Is your smile dingy and dark—or healthy and bright? You have to play the game. Life is hard enough and a bright, beautiful smile can help open doors and hearts. It is superficial. But so are many of the things in our lives; clothing, haircuts, cars and houses. If you want to do something about your appearance and you can, then go for it! Back in the car, she pulled down the sun visor and pondered them in the mirror. They had been examined and cleaned. They had been judged to be sound and healthy. Yet she learned she had an overbite. And there were tiny spaces, uneven spaces between some of them. She BE AuT y 9 thought of the upcoming pageant, the national stage. There would be a new set of clear plastic appliances every two weeks, which would press her teeth into an improved configuration.

There would be a bleaching solution to place in the trays that would whiten them at the same time. There was also the possibility she would get her gums contoured, to make her teeth look longer. How it recedes over time anyway. She herself had watched the smile makeovers on television shows. People show you respect. People give you more love when your teeth are just straight and fixed. And more presentable. People are more approachable. You know what I mean? Some, drawn to political activism, were joining a nationwide protest over aggressive police tactics. In early December, she read about the campus demonstrations, students marching and blocking roads near her old school, plans for a poetry slam.

Sometimes she missed those college days when she was majoring in political science and African American studies. At the same time, she was trying to stay focused on her 10 Teeth internship and her work as Miss Maryland USA. She learned to change clothes and make herself up in the car in order to keep up with her public appearances. Near Christmas she had another dental appointment. As she waited in the office she read the history of Sandy Spring, the little community where the dental office was located—the pastures and rolling lawns, she learned, had once been plantations. She read about a slave who bought his own freedom and then bought the freedom of his wife and children. When she was called in for her appointment, this time, she had to bite into a tray of plastery paste to make impressions of her teeth.

Photos were taken of her face, from every angle. To keep a log of the progression. Slaves fled to freedom through these woods. When she switched on the radio there was a new J. Cole song playing. He wrote it in honor of Michael Brown, a young black man, left dead after a confrontation with police in Ferguson, Missouri. The exhibits went on for blocks— office furnishings and x-ray machines, disposable bibs and tissue lasers, lab coats and business management software, extractor forceps and teaching puppets, disembodied dentures and pearly laminate veneers, adult braces and medical credit card services, BE AuT y 11 portable wooden chairs to take missionary care to jungle villages and bleaching solutions to make teeth four shades whiter in five minutes.

He was preparing to do a live veneer demonstration before an audience of colleagues attending the ADA meeting. The large room where Hornbrook was working was set up like a darkened theater in the round. At the center of the room, inside a lighted pavilion, a neatly coiffed dental assistant sat beside a dental chair where a young woman wearing jeans was reclining. She was waiting for her final veneer treatment. She was introduced as Cherish. Her four front teeth had been prepared at an earlier appointment— depth cuts made, biting edges shortened and reshaped, some enamel removed to accommodate the new porcelain surfaces. Then at the chair, three big screens showed Hornbrook chipping away the provisional veneers that the patient had been wearing over her cut-down teeth.

The finished porcelain veneers needed to be etched and bonded. But first Cherish had a chance to try them on. They were symmetrical and straight and very white. They fit over her old teeth a little like sparkling glass slippers. The dental meeting spanned several days and the thick program included listings for scores of continuing education courses, among them twenty-two listings for cosmetic dentistry. The services range from simple bleaching treatments to complex full-mouth 12 Teeth restorations. Neither the American Dental Association nor other groups such as the Dental Trade Alliance or the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry say they can offer figures on the national trend. But as they did in the s, when the modern cosmetic dental boom really took off, some industry analysts have continued to estimate that more than 80 percent of dental practices offer at least some cosmetic procedures.

For dentists, the templates can take the guesswork out of designing new smiles for their patients. There are also services to help dentists sell their patients on the designs. There are medical credit card companies that offer smiles on installment plans. But demand is strong. The dentists were given sets of stone teeth for the practice ses- BE AuT y 13 sion, as well as other supplies. The dentists fitted the burs into their handpieces and, with a rising hum, they bent to the work of cutting and shaping the model teeth to accommodate the veneers. The cosmetic dental boom that began in earnest in America back in the s keeps on booming. These days, Americans spend more than one billion dollars a year on teeth-whitening products alone, industry studies have shown.

Europeans still tend to prefer a subtler look, teeth that appear more natural. But like Americans, consumers in emerging economies claiming billions of teeth— China, India, and Brazil—want movie star smiles. Instead of dreading their dental appointments, patients are careful to keep them and even look forward to them. The trend has made life pleasanter for dentists, Ward noted. But the stakes are high. And it worked. Now obviously what I did was important. But more important, I made her feel good about herself. You see we forget sometimes. We are psychologists. But failure can mean a lawsuit, Ward warned. Cosmetic dentists endow the six top front teeth with particular esthetic significance that goes beyond their biological importance. The paired central incisors, flanked by the lateral incisors and the curving canines or cuspids, are given specific roles in the configuration of the smile. The feminine tooth tends to be more rounded, the masculine tooth tends to be more flat.

Finally we have the personality. And of course that is shown in the cuspid. Many have relied upon the Golden Proportion—found in nature and revered since ancient times as a kind of mystical formula for beauty—as their guide. It is used in designing cars. In a smile conforming with this enigmatically pleasing scale, the widths of adjacent teeth are proportioned in accord with the ratio represented by the Greek letter phi. Others have developed their own formulas they believe deliver better-looking smiles. Ward has called his the Recurring Esthetic Dental proportion. His research has convinced him that the use of this formula results in a smile that features the dominant front teeth, which cosmetic patients and dentists prefer. On that point, he made no apologies. Do they want to get what they saw in nature? Or would they rather have what people think looks better? But over the course of much of the last century, and particularly over the past three decades, the bleaching, bonding, and laminating materials that help achieve it have evolved in response to demand.

That demand has been driven by a confluence of powerful forces: fashion, mass media, easy credit, marketing, and the popularity of elective surgical procedures of all kinds. New digital cameras were distributed and participants were asked to pair up and take photographs of one another. A photograph bares flaws that might be fleeting in real time. It reveals gaps, asymmetries, stains, and misalignments ripe for cosmetic correction. The pictures serve as a guide for the dental laboratories in fabricating the finished veneers and crowns. Let me see a picture of the way she looked before we started. Bottom line. The teeth can be perfect, but the dentist who ignores the rest of the face is not really completing the job, according to the teacher of the class, Ohio dentist Louis Malcmacher. That is what all this is really about and that is the way every dentist should approach it, just like any other part of their practice.

The dentists learned to dilute the botox with saline solution, and to use alcohol to wipe down the faces of their volunteers: mostly their dental assistants and other staffers, husbands and wives. They marked the injection sites with pens. A photograph is more than a mirror. In the face of mortality, it offers hope for a permanent self. Wedding albums, family portraits, the images of stars and models on screens and in glossy magazines dwell in an idealized place, separate from time and space. Photography offers a parallel universe, graven by light, a chance for perfection. Photography and professional dentistry were born at precisely the same moment in history. The disciplines have enjoyed a complex and synergistic relationship ever since. Both, in their own ways, have built empires upon the smile.

But he was also a devout admirer of teeth. patent was awarded for a camera. Wolcott, a dentist. He called his images calotypes, taken from the Greek word kalos for beautiful. The photograph offered a new way of seeing. Soon photography was a widely consumed commodity. The mass-produced photographs held up a new kind of mirror. They standardized beauty. Faster films—and, by the end of the nineteenth century, moving pictures— offered increasingly candid images. Eager audiences gazed into the flickering silver light, into the great, luminous faces on the screen.

The stars opened their mouths and spoke. Some of the actors had been poor, or lived hard and fast. It showed in their teeth. There were shantytowns around the studio gates, where aspiring performers camped and hoped for big breaks. The director King Vidor found many of the stars for one of his films adrift on the streets of Los Angeles. The Great Depression of the s could have spelled disaster for Hollywood. Even in the depths of the depression, 60 million to 80 million Americans went to the movies each week. A young dentist named Charles Pincus went to the movies too. When the stock market crashed, he had just opened an office on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Watching the actors up on the screen, he realized there was a place for a dentist in the dream factory.

The appliances were known as Hollywood veneers. Montgomery Clift, Fanny Brice, Mae West, Joan Crawford, and Bob Hope were among his patients. So was James Dean, who died in an accident at twenty-four. But he was missing all of his back teeth. So he would make these little slip-ons. Her breakout role came that same year. It was in in the film Stand Up and Cheer. The child danced and beamed through nearly two dozen feature films by the time she was twelve. Yet America never saw her lose her baby teeth. He recognized the tiny actress as a powerful antidote to hard times. Years later in her memoir, the actress would remember her visit with Roosevelt.

He threw his big head back and broke into loud laughter. She was worried about the tooth, which had disappeared from the hotel dresser where she was keeping it until she could place it beneath her pillow for a tooth fairy reward. Their exchange served as an acknowledgment of the growing currency of the smile in public life. Kasson has argued. They would shape the American smile. Few things will cause a patient to enthuse as much as the results which may be obtained by a little simple rounding of very long sharp cusps. Long narrow teeth may be made into well proportioned centrals and laterals through shortening and recontouring. Prosperity and science offered new potential in peacetime. Women, who had entered the workplace in vast numbers during the war, were now vying with returning men for jobs. They were discovering new roles and new identities. have a plastic surgery operation. Then a remodeled nose, a rounded chin, may alter her personality—and her whole life.

The February issue of Cosmopolitan magazine featured a movie star on its mauve cover sporting sparkling diamond earrings and a dazzling smile. Nothing seemed to stop the formation of new cavities. She had them taken care of promptly, but countless fillings of all colors, sizes and shapes made her mouth an unsightly hodgepodge. Now her friend Sally was going to get married; in three weeks she would be quitting just the kind of job Jane had always wanted. Her payments are just about covered by the big raise in earnings on the new job. Wilkie, secretary of the Dental Society of the State of New York. Cosmetic dentistry became part of the same quest for physical selfimprovement that brought the nation tummy tucks and liposuction. Creating the perfect smile might have gotten its start in the dream factory that was Depression-era Hollywood. By that decade it began to seem that dentists would need to find something to do besides drilling and filling cavities.

The growing use of professionally applied topical fluorides, protective dental sealants, and other innovations were also credited with reducing decay. By , the New York Times weighed in on that trend as well. But other factors have helped drive the trend as well. The smiles of Shirley Temple and Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have stood as emblems of American solidarity during the hard times of the Great Depression and World War II. But it was the Hollywood smile of President Ronald Reagan that gleamed over the glamour, conspicuous consumption, and individualism that marked the s.

The decade also brought a dramatic shift in the business climate for health care services, including dental care. Following a decision by the U. Supreme Court, longtime restrictions on medical advertising were lifted. The ruling not only opened the way to more competition in the marketplace; it created a way for providers to sell procedures to the public. And the marketing of procedures, particularly cosmetic procedures, began to recast the doctor-patient relationship. Before and after photographs invite the consumer to imagine a sagging jaw made sleek, a wrinkled brow made smooth, a crooked smile made straight. Perfection comes at a price. But the banking deregulation of the s and s gave rise to another catalyst that continues to drive elective procedures, including cosmetic dentistry: the medical credit card.

The cards, which typically offer long-term, 24 Teeth deferred-interest financing, are marketed as a way of helping consumers to get the treatments they desire, at the time they want them. By , 79 percent of the members of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry responding to a survey reported that they offered their cosmetic dentistry patients third-party external financing services. on the website of one of the leading medical credit card companies. But the cards can be risky and consumers do not always understand the terms. Beyond the cost of the care, a few dentists have raised warnings about the emotional forces that underlie the demand for cosmetic dental treatments, and the biological consequences of some of the procedures. In some cases, the mental health of the patient in search of a Hollywood smile can cause concerns, according to Chris Herren, a Kentucky dentist and former professor at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.

He went on to publish a much-cited paper about the case. Researchers have estimated that up to 15 percent of patients seeking cosmetic surgeries suffer from BDD. Even after a number of bleaching procedures, the patient continued to insist her teeth were too dark. Finally, she told the dentist that tooth whitening had become an all-consuming obsession. Treatments such as veneers typically require lifetime maintenance. Sometimes they fail. These are factors that patients and dentists need to candidly discuss. By February she was tired and feeling stressed. She needed to choose her gown for the Miss USA pageant and have it fitted but she seemed to be losing weight. Her dental work was lagging, too, and she was blaming herself. She was supposed to switch to a new set of Invisalign braces every two weeks.

If the dentists could not close the tiny gaps with the braces in time for the pageant, Adjei said, Linda Steel told her they could use other methods. For the spaces. She had headaches from the pressure on her teeth and the whitening solution had been somewhat painful too. BE AuT y 27 Around the parking lot outside the dental office, the trees were filled with birds. A woodpecker drummed on a tree trunk. Adjei emerged from the dental office, wrapped in her coat and scarf. She walked across the icy parking lot. She was carrying something that the dentist gave her.

It fit into her graceful palm. It was a plaster cast of her teeth. The teeth curved along the dental arches, uppers and lowers, each one shaped, specific to its task, an orderly, businesslike set—incisors, canines, premolars, and molars. She gently opened them and traced their delicate cusps. Little baby teeth. They regarded her back, cryptically. Linda Steel had made it. That will all be fixed by the time of the pageant. She said she planned to keep it on her dresser. She hoped the dentist would give her another one, when the work was done. My year as Miss Maryland USA. She went to New York. Read Love The Supreme Gift The Greatest Thing In The World Link MOBI online is a convenient and frugal way to read Love The Supreme Gift The Greatest Thing In The World Link you love right from the comfort of your own home.

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Enhance your purchase. An NPR Best Book of "[ Teeth is]. more than an exploration of a two-tiered system―it is a call for sweeping, radical change. 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. Previous page. Print length. Publication date. March 14, See all details. Next page. Frequently bought together. Total price:. To see our price, add these items to your cart. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details Hide details. Choose items to buy together. This item: Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America. Get it as soon as Thursday, Sep Only 19 left in stock more on the way. Get it as soon as Tuesday, Sep Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist.

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Teeth breaks new ground in the canon of books about poverty. It should be read by anyone concerned about the class divide in the U. Rife with discovery, and a spur to social action, Mary Otto's book is a beautifully readable and essential testament for these times. Teeth should be read by every policy maker and health professional who believes we can and must act to reduce the current barriers to dental care. Sullivan, MD, U. Secretary of Health and Human Services, , and chairman of the Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions "Who eats too much sugar, leading to dental trauma? Primarily the poor. Who cannot sleep because of continuing dental pain and no available dental care? Even with Medicare and Medicaid, dental care has remained a stepchild―and these programs are in jeopardy now. a life of poverty,' Otto says. More teeth failure and its consequences are on their way. I highly recommend it.

Mary Otto's unflinching work on the miserable state of oral health in America gnaws at you like a toothache. Mary Otto is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post , where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care and poverty. She lives in Washington, DC. Amazon Explore Browse now. About the author Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Mary Otto. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more. Read more Read less. Customer reviews. How customer reviews and ratings work Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.

Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. Images in this review. Reviews with images. See all customer images. Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from the United States. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. An excellent book that's overdue, questioning the separation of the medical and dental branches of health care, its history, and at times tragic consequences. The American Dental Association's shameful resistance to varied efforts aimed at more available dental care, especially for the poor, is yet another example of the failure of an American health care system structured for profit. Dentistry is an unregulated industry free to charge whatever exorbitant fees it wants, making it unaffordable for so many.

Which brings me to where I was disappointed. The author, who does mention the elderly in in passing, and the fact that Medicare doesn't cover dental, fails to spend much time on their situation, where it isn't so much prevention that's desperately needed, but dealing with the failures of teeth that require serious repair, and—after loss—the unaffordability of replacements. It's pretty heartless, being turned away when a tooth is lost to time good care notwithstanding and there's no recourse, not for lack of options but because of their cost. The solutions have been developed, but they're not covered by the kind of dental insurance that middle-class older people can afford; rather, they focus on preventive care, with very little coverage if any, after the deductible for restorative work.

It simply doesn't make sense for average elderly people to pay for dental insurance even if they can manage to. Why such short shrift to the elderly? Doesn't their suffering, not to mention humiliation, count? Maybe in a new edition?

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