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We Are More: Show Me Your Teeth

  • Dena Rod
  • June 2, 2021
Despite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
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Body Inheritance

  • Anna Held
  • June 23, 2020
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Spotlight: “Dentist Dad”

  • Grace + Anna
  • June 4, 2020
A young woman stays with her boyfriend's parents. It will be her last visit.
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Teeth: An Oral History

  • Thomas Dai
  • April 4, 2019
Few people can tell that my smile is literally fake.
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Inauguration Day Root Canal

  • Elizabeth Horneber
  • January 21, 2019
On Inauguration Day, I can’t feel my mouth.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat

  • Brighde Moffat
  • April 26, 2018
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Opening the Hump

  • Oddný Eir
  • October 1, 2016
The trick is to pinpoint the time of the cycle, not to try to solve the mystery in the undertow. And to understand that everything needs time; you have to position yourself, warm up.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 30, 2015
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Anti-dentite. Being an American girl is expensive. A daughter’s revenge. The metaphors…
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SPACE AVALANCHE: Dentist

  • Eoin Ryan
  • April 19, 2010
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