03704nam 2200661Ia 450 991045410580332120200520144314.01-282-09421-197866120942170-8135-4711-310.36019/9780813547114(CKB)1000000000748103(EBL)435059(OCoLC)609837432(SSID)ssj0000362777(PQKBManifestationID)11925511(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362777(PQKBWorkID)10380868(PQKB)10368401(MiAaPQ)EBC435059(OCoLC)966761921(MdBmJHUP)muse38344(DE-B1597)530184(DE-B1597)9780813547114(Au-PeEL)EBL435059(CaPaEBR)ebr10294844(CaONFJC)MIL209421(EXLCZ)99100000000074810320080808d2009 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrMaking the American mouth[electronic resource] dentists and public health in the twentieth century /Alyssa PicardNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20091 online resource (242 p.)Critical issues in health and medicineDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4535-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-216) and index.Front matter --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 1930's and 1940's --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 --IndexWhy are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of United States 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 the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, this work describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, mid-century social movements for racial and gender equity, and pressure to insure dental costs. It explains how dentists came to promote cosmetic services, and why Americans were so eager to purchase them. As we move into the twentyfirst century, dentists' success in shaping their industry means that for many, the perfect American smile will remain a distant--though tantalizing--dream.Critical issues in health and medicine.Dental public healthUnited StatesHistory20th centuryDentistryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Dental public healthHistoryDentistryHistory362.197600973Picard Alyssa1032386MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454105803321Making the American mouth2450212UNINA