We Are More: Show Me Your Teeth
Despite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
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Posts Tagged: dentists
In the US, Not Much Wisdom About Teeth
As a grad student without dental insurance, Jess Stoner received “an almost-affordable root canal from student dentists” in a room full of twenty other uninsured patients. Listening to the whimpers of pained strangers, I learned an incredibly important lesson I have never forgotten: We’re all fucked. Read her essay on the shocking state of dental care […]
...moreNot Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination
I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from Los Algodones, Mexico, where a new tooth costs $1,000. If that doesn’t make you want to read the rest of Safy-Hallan Farah’s dental-tourism story, you […]
...moreThe Long Haul #2: Brass Monkey
A year earlier, I’d celebrated my birthday with an all-night bash. The writing was going well, I went out dancing every night. Now I stared into snowy gloom and wondered what I’d been thinking.
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