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The Slate.com has published a nice video slideshow showing different ways that dentists have been portrayed in the movies.

Laffing Gas (1914)

The Dentist © 1932, Synergy Entertainment.

The Strawberry Blonde © 1941, Turner Entertainment Co.

Cactus Flower © 1969, Columbia Pictures.

Marathon Man © 1976, Gelderse Maatschaappij

The In-Laws © 1979, Warner Bros.

10 © 1979, Orion Pictures Co.

Little Shop of Horrors © 1986, Geffen Film Co.

Wild Hogs © 2007, Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

The Secret Lives of Dentists © 2002, Manhattan Pictures International.

Reign Over Me © 2007, Columbia…

June Thomas of the SLATE.com is writing a multi-part article called The American Way of Dentistry. I recommend people read her informative and interesting articles. I decided to provide some key points from her posts to date to get you started.

Part I: The Story of My Teeth (9/28/09)

• Main point is June has had poor dental care growing up and has recently spent a lot of money repairing the damage of neglect.
  • She…

In a national survey conducted by Majestic Drug Company, a provider of oral care products found that Americans are not prepared to deal with dental emergencies. Of 1,000 people surveyed, 72 percent have fillings or crowns and one in six had a dental emergency during the past 12 months.

People making less than $35,000 per year were more likely to have had a dental emergency in the past 12 months compared…

Photo by Damon Winter/The New York Times

Residents near Charleston, WV, may be suffering from health problems including dental erosion because of chemical pollution in drinking water, according to an article in the New York Times.

Local mining companies appear to be the cause of contaminated water supply. Rinse water from coal cleansing has been pumped into the soil causing high levels of arsenic, lead, chromium, beryllium, nickel, and other pollutants, which…