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Eve Vincent, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University

What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor

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Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne.

In an essay for Aeon, US journalist Sarah Smarsh calls them “poor teeth”. She writes:

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