Volume 223 Issue 3, 11 August 2017
The Dentistry in Literature series: White Teeth
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!
The cover of this issue features Zadie Smith's White Teeth first published in 2000. This tale features the lives of two friends in North London, one Bangladeshi and the other English. It has characters from various cultures, but all the families — whatever their skin colour or religion — have white teeth. This is a unifying feature in a world of difference. So when one character becomes a dentist, ostensibly to look after the teeth of members of her community, she might be considered to be symbolically looking after the 'unifying element in society'.
Credit: Illustration by Matthew Laznicka
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