Table of Contents

1. Oral health: an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach?, Part I: Professionalism, ethics and inequalities, 2. Do dentists’ views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness?, 3. Designing healthy smiles, 4. Feminism, pipelines and gender myths: interrogating gender equality and inclusion in dentistry, Part II: Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth, 5. Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, 6. Metaphors in the mouth: on dental fitness and iatronormativity, 7. ‘DO AS YOUR DENTIST TELLS YOU’: mouthwash advertising in interwar America, 8. Science, beauty and health: the explosion of toothpaste advertising in interwar America, Part III: The patient’s perspective, 9. Tommy’s teeth: trench mouth, dentures and dental health among British army recruits in World War One, 10. The mouth as the gateway to the leaky body: the visibility of internal bleeding in the mouths of people with haemophilia, 11. ‘Having work done’: the teeth, mouth and oral health as a body project, Part IV: State, surveillance and social justice, 12. ‘Enlightened employers of labour’? Oral health in the British factory, 1890-1950, 13. The state of tooth decay: dental knowledge, medical policy and fluoridation in Sweden, 1952-62, 14. The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism