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Mary Otto is an American medical journalist who is the topic leader on oral health for the Association of Health Care Journalists. 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. She previously worked at the Washington Post for eight years, where she reported on health care and poverty. She first began reporting on oral health in 2007 while working at the Post. 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. In 2019, she received the Art of Healing Award from the Cambridge Health Alliance.

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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.
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