Volume 223 Issue 10, 24 November 2017
The Dentistry in Literature series: Money
For the cover series of this volume (223) of the BDJ, we have chosen to illustrate various instances where dentistry or teeth feature in literature. A wide range of sources have been considered — from well-known 'great works' to more obscure authors, older texts to modern novels and from mentions of dentists to descriptions of some very unusual teeth!
This issue depicts the Martin Amis novel 'Money', featuring as the protagonist John Self purportedly representing the writer himself. Amis suffered with significant toothache before having implants placed. In Money Self equates his head and his pain with New York City.
'My head is a city, various pains have now taken up residence in various parts of my face. A gum-and-bone ache has launched a cooperative on my upper west side. Across the park, neuralgia has rented a duplex in my fashionable east seventies. Downtown, my chin throbs with lofts of jaw-loss. As for my brain, my hundreds, it's Harlem up there, expanding in the summer fires. It boils and swells.'
Credit: Illustration by Matthew Laznicka
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