Making the American mouth : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / Alyssa Picard.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-216) and index.

American dental hygiene : "small flags attached to toothbrushes may be waved" -- Diet and the dental critique of American life : "we boast of our civilization, but we starve our children" -- "Like a sugar-coated pill" : defining American dentistry abroad -- "This national stupidity" : American dental economics in the 1930s and 1940s -- Behind the fluorine curtain -- The "satisfaction of dentistry" and the end of public health -- The look of the American mouth.