Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 5:15 – 6:15pm EST
Community Read "Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America".Followed by a Book Discussion with Author Mary Otto, and Burton L. Edelstein, D.D.S., M.P.H., professor emeritus dental medicine and health policy and management and special lecturer, who was featured in the book.
Co-sponsored by the Phillip Capozzi, M.D., Library, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College.
In this brilliant debut book, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a call for sweeping, radical change,” veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America’s mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. It exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society.
This book is available in the Phillip Capozzi, M.D., Library and onlineNYMC library users can access the book here.TCDM library users can access the book here.