Making the American Mouth : Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century.
Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Perfect white, straight teeth. Making the American Mouth is at once a history of U.S. dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth c...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: American Dental Hygiene: "Small Flags Attached to Toothbrushes May Be Waved"; Chapter 2: Diet and the Dental Critique of American Life: "We Boast of Our Civilization, But We Starve Our Children"; Chapter 3: "Like a Sugar-Coated Pill": Defining American Dentistry Abroad; Chapter 4: "This National Stupidity": American Dental Economics in the 1930s and 1940s; Chapter 5: Behind the Fluorine Curtain; Chapter 6: The "Satisfaction of Dentistry" and the End of Public Health; Chapter 7: The Look of the American Mouth; Epilogue; Notes. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) and index. | ||
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