"?Where There Is No Dentist? is a book about what people can do for themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth. It is written for: • village and neighborhood health workers who want to learn more about dental care as part of a complete community-based approach to health; • school teachers, mothers, fathers, and anyone concerned with encouraging dental health in their children and their community; and • those dentists and dental technicians who are looking for ways to share their skills, to help people become more self-reliant at lower cost. Just as with the rest of health care, there is a strong need to ?deprofessionalize? dentistry—to provide ordinary people and community workers with more skills to prevent and cure problems in the mouth. After all, early care is what makes the dentist?s work unnecessary—and this is the care that each person gives to his or her own teeth, or what a mother does to protect her children?s teeth...".....Read online or download (3.7MB)...Originally published 1983; last revised 2011.