title: Changing dental images--from stone tablets to comic strips.
abstract: From deworming and tooth drawing to rehabilitation and prevention--the dentist's role has changed decidedly over the centuries. Dental images have changed as well. The perceptions of teeth and dentistry in myth and folklore, in art, literature, and popular cultural forms are varied, shifting, and reflective of both the growth of the profession and the fluxes and attitudinal changes in society.
authors.affiliation: Center for Clinical Research in Dentistry, School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Columbia University, New York 10032.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Mandel
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002325:Caricatures as Topic; D002359:Cartoons as Topic; D003469:Culture; D003813:Dentistry / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D008513:Medicine in Literature