52 - The Rebuff
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Over the past several centuries, the medical field has established a firm graph on the domain of the human body, with one very notable exception -- the teeth. In this episode, we'll explore this historic split between medicine and dentistry, and the moment in history where the two fields could have been rejoined but were “rebuffed.”
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