Newspaper article by Harold Pollack. (August 8, 2013). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/08/85-million-americans-lack-dental-coverage-fixing-that-requires-more-than-just-money/
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Newspaper article by Abby Phillip. (February 13, 2015). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/13/a-trip-to-the-dentist-helped-uncover-a-grapefruit-sized-tumor-and-saved-this-11-year-old-girls-life/
Newspaper article by Mary Jordan. (July 1, 2017). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists/2017/07/01/ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html
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News article by Mary Otto. (February 27, 2007). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2007/02/28/for-want-of-a-dentist-span-classbankheadpr-georges-boy-dies-after-bacteria-from-tooth-spread-to-brain-span/34055bc4-0986-4ee1-918a-fcfb0b3b541a/
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Fiction book by Simon Stephenson. Hanover Square Press: Toronto, ON, 2020. In 2054, certain careers are now the purview of extremely human-like bots, including dentistry. Jared, a bot-dentist in Ypsilanti, Michigan, discovers one day that, unlike his bot brethren, he has emotions. Specifically, with the help of his friend a human medical doctor, Dr.
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Children’s chapter book by David Walliams with illustrations by Tony Ross. Harper: New York, 2016. Strange things have been happening in twelve-year-old Alfie’s town. When children put their lost teeth under their pillows for the Tooth Fairy, instead of money they find gruesome items like a dead snake, spiders, or an oozing scab. Alfie
Children’s chapter book by Christina Wyman. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York, 2023. More and more kids in the U.S. wear braces. Not all of them, though, are like 7th grader Max Plink, who has to wear braces and orthodontic headgear nicknamed the jawbreaker, because of her severe malocclusion. Even with these treatments, she might have
Early chapter book by Nancy Krulik with illustrations by John & Wendy. Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 2007. Part of the “Katie Kazoo Switcheroo” series. From the smell–a mixture of bleach and mint mouthwash–to the water sucking tube that makes her drool to the pointy tool the dentist uses to pick at her teeth,
Children’s book by Dan Gutman with illustrations by Jim Paillot. Harper: New York, 2019. Part of the “My Weirder-est School” series. It is National Dessert Day so the school nurse has invited a dentist, Dr. Floss, to come talk to the students. That’s when weird things begin to happen. Instead of encouraging the students
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Picture book written and illustrated by Dr. Ben Magleby. Booksurge Publishing, 2008. Sugarbug Doug loves living in your mouth where he can build a strong house, get lots of sugary food, and invite friends to join him. What he doesn’t like are toothbrushes, floss, healthy foods, and water with fluoride. These all make it
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