Newspaper article by Janice Neumann. (December 2, 2017). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-dental-visit-can-cost-you-but-a-delay-can-hurt-your-teeth-and-budget-even-more/2017/12/01/20bef8e8-c405-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html
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Newspaper article by Tope Folarin. (August 4, 2020). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/04/if-we-want-vital-creative-society-we-need-universal-dental-care-too/
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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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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
Children’s book by Vicki Cobb, with illustrations by Andrew N. Harris and photomicrographs by Dennis Kunkel. Millbrook Press: Minneapolis, MN, 2009. Part of the “Body Battles” series. Take a journey inside your mouth to see all the important players that protect your teeth from cavities and what happens if you do get a cavity.
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Picture book by Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora and illustrated by Brock Cole. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York, 2003. In rhyming text we learn of the trials and travails of George Washington’s experiences with extensive tooth loss, dental pain, and early dentistry. Includes a timeline of important events in Washington’s life from his own
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Graphic novel for tweens by Raina Telgemeier. Scholastic/Graphix: New York, 2010. A fall on her way home leads to sixth grader Raina knocking out her two front teeth. This begins a tale of dental drama that lasts throughout middle and into high school. She endures pain and embarrassment as she goes through various types
Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race, bias, pain, and patient education. (2023) I had a patient yesterday actually who, she was in her 30s, and had never been to the dentist, and she just moved here from Africa. And she, even [when] explaining what I would assume were the more lay-person terminology, I had to break
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses patient fears (2023) Okay, so we talked about a lot of treatment plan options and how faculty can differ on essentially their opinion on it. But I’ve also had situations where faculty had a different diagnosis for a patient, and that was also very disheartening and a little bit frustrating for
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