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]