Mary Otto: It stayed generally separate. Taking care of the teeth became kind of a trade. In the barber-surgeon days, dentist skills were among one of the many personal services that barber surgeons provided, like leeching and cupping and tooth extractions. They approached it as a mechanical challen
Date: Mar 09, 2017
Category: Health
Source: Google
Live Chat 2:30 pm ET: Inside America's Dental Care Crisis
Theyll be joined by guest questioner Mary Otto, editor-in-chief of Street Sense, and a former reporter for The Washington Post, where she reported extensively on Americas dental care crisis. Her 2007 story on 12-year-old Deamonte Driver a Maryland child covered by Medicaid who died from a dental