Mary Otto is an American medical journalist who is the topic leader on oral health for the Association of Health Care Journalists.[1] She is also the author of the book Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America, published in 2017 by the New Press.[2] She previously worked at the Washington Post for eight years, where she reported on health care and poverty.[3] She first began reporting on oral health in 2007 while working at the Post.[4] She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow from 2009 to 2010, and she received the Gies Award from the American Dental Education Association in 2010.[5][6] In 2019, she received the Art of Healing Award from the Cambridge Health Alliance.[7]

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  1. ^ "Mary Otto". Association of Health Care Journalists. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  2. ^ Jaffe, Sarah (2017-03-23). "The Tooth Divide: Beauty, Class and the Story of Dentistry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  3. ^ "Washington Post Journalist and Author Mary Otto to speak at Normandale on April 26". Normandale Community College. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  4. ^ Otto, Mary (Spring 2018). "The Class Politics of Teeth". Dissent. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  5. ^ "Mary Otto". Association of Health Care Journalists. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  6. ^ "Mary Otto". Farquhar Honors College. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  7. ^ "Cambridge Health Alliance raises $545K at annual dinner". Wicked Local Cambridge. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2019-12-16.