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Volume 223 Issue 12, 22 December 2017

The Dentistry in Literature series: Don Quixote

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 final cover in this Dentistry in Literature series is a festive one featuring the classic novel, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes wrote ' A diamond is not as precious as a tooth' and also 'Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.'

Cervantes evidently valued his teeth, as demonstrated in Don Quixote with the memorable quote: 'Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.'

Credit: Illustration by Matthew Laznicka

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