Teeth with Mary Otto

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Because of an accident of history, we think of our teeth as being wholly separate from the rest of our bodies. They even have different doctors. But teeth really are the entryway to the body, and the state of oral health in America says a lot about our inequities in general. Abdul talks to Mary Otto, journalist and author of Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America. Abdul also offers his perspective on the current COVID-19 surge and the new Omicron variant. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	A new variant of concern that could be more transmissible than Delta has emerged in South
0:10.8	Africa and has been identified in at least 12 countries.
0:14.4	Meanwhile, COVID-19 is surging in much of the Midwest as Americans emerge from the Thanksgiving
0:18.5	holidays.
0:19.5	A federal jury helped three of the country's largest retail pharmacy chains, CVS, Walgreens
0:24.5	and Walmart, culpable in the nation's opioid epidemic.
0:27.8	This is America Dissected.
0:28.8	I'm your host, Dr. Abdullal Sayyid.
0:37.6	Look, I always wanted to be a doctor.
0:39.8	Okay, maybe not always.
0:41.6	When I was really young, I actually wanted to be a dentist.
0:44.4	When you're a healthy kid, like I was privileged enough to be, trips to the doctor are, well,
0:48.8	unaventful.
0:49.8	They listen to your lungs, tap your knees and then tell you to lose some weight, or at least
0:53.0	they told me to lose some weight.
0:54.8	Sometimes they'd give you a shot or two, which don't tell anyone I used to resist with
0:58.9	all my might.
0:59.9	I am not a vaccine resistor anymore.
1:01.3	I still don't like the sight of a needle in my arm.
1:04.8	But the dentist, that's where the action was.
1:07.0	They had all these cool contraptions to make my teeth healthier.
1:09.5	They'd give my teeth a whole cleaning, leaving my mouth tasting like bubble gum.
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