Making the American Mouth : Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century.

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Author / Creator:	Picard, Alyssa.
Imprint:	Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (242 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subject:	Dental public health -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Dentistry -- United States -- History -- 20th century. History of Dentistry. Social Identification. Public Health Dentistry -- history. History, 20th Century. Dental public health. Dentistry. United States. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212258

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ISBN:	9780813547114 0813547113 9780813545356 0813545358
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 century and addresses the ways dentists worked to expand that accessand improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, Making the American Mouth describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, midcentury social movements fo.
Other form:	Print version: 9780813545356

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