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Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

  • Book extract

You know the drill

Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.

  • Article

Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

  • Article

The meaning of trauma is wound

Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.

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  • A man strapped into a dentist's chair with the dentist looking on. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • An anxious patient in a dentist's chair. Wood engraving after CTW, 1893.
  • A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.
  • A dentist strapped into his own chair being terrorized by a patient holding a buzzing drill. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • A dentist being restrained in a chair, and terrified by a patient who is attempting to get his own back.Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Dental clinic, U.S.A.: dental hygienists examine two boys seated in wooden dentist chairs; the room is decorated with dental hygiene awareness posters. Photograph, ca. 1920.
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