Mary Otto
Mary Otto is the author of Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America. She is the oral health topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She began writing about oral health at the Washington Post, where she worked for eight years covering social issues including health care and poverty.
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