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Unethical Dentist Yanks Healthy Children's Teeth For Medicaid Profits
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The Artisan
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those pictures are fucking disturbing.
styl3s
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Reminds me of a dentist i went to years back who was adamant on doing either a root canal on these back teeth and doing 2 crowns or pulling and doing a bridge or implants. I went with pull because i couldn't afford the root canals + crowns and when i went to get them pulled the guy looked at my teeth and immediately knew that they didn't need to be pulled and sent me to this guy across town.
Turns out they just needed a filling and not 2 months later the guy who wanted to do all this shit to my teeth had shut down his practice and moved out of state. Wasn't the first shady dentist i have been to either one place straight closed up overnight and bounced fucking a lot of people out of their money here. I can't remember the name but it was all over the news. Thankfully the guy i go to now is 100% in the business of whats best for you. Will work on payment and do everything he can to make it as cheap as possible.
If i was a super vindictive man i would say remove all his teeth and put him in jail. Guy from OP story is a awful, awful human being.
Turns out they just needed a filling and not 2 months later the guy who wanted to do all this shit to my teeth had shut down his practice and moved out of state. Wasn't the first shady dentist i have been to either one place straight closed up overnight and bounced fucking a lot of people out of their money here. I can't remember the name but it was all over the news. Thankfully the guy i go to now is 100% in the business of whats best for you. Will work on payment and do everything he can to make it as cheap as possible.
If i was a super vindictive man i would say remove all his teeth and put him in jail. Guy from OP story is a awful, awful human being.
Rajack
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If you have money in Rick Scott's state, you likely won't be facing any major charges.
dude what
Littlefang
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Yeah one of the dentists I went to when I was a kid did all kinds of unnecessary work on my teeth. I remember one hygienist shoving the metal tool they use to check for cavities into one of my fillings (that they did) and told me I needed a root canal. I am now terrified of dentists.
You should be kept away from children.
Is child abuse not a crime in America? Any sane person can see this is assault so why is he not in jail? Rich old and white?
And if never occurred to him to just forge the paperwork? Why put in two crowns on one tooth and pull it instead of just lying about it? Did he think bullshit procedures showing up in the paperwork would be less suspicious if he had a trail of victims to support his fraud?
I really did pull all the teeth out of a 3 year-olds skull, and here's the toothless baby to prove it! Money please.
I really did pull all the teeth out of a 3 year-olds skull, and here's the toothless baby to prove it! Money please.
Jesus fucking Christ. I had one tooth pulled as a kid, by a super nice dentist who was all comforting and warm, and I still remember how scared I was. I can't begin to fathom how horrified the poor kids were.
Good thing they will still get their adult teeth in due time... But it won't cancel the trauma.
It's unbelievable he's getting away with itThis is all disturbing as fuck.
What a scummy asshole.
One lesson I got out of having a dentist in the family: never let anyone pull your tooth as long as there's any hope for it left and you can afford to have it fixed. There are dentists who will just shrug and want to pull teeth that can be saved with a bit more effort, like the one you met - in which case, switch a dentist.
You do realize they make more money saving teeth than taking them out
adamsappel
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I have long suspected I had unnecessary dental work done when I was a kid. I have a lot of fillings, and have had a few broken teeth from fillings coming loose.
I hope this dentist goes to prison.
I hope this dentist goes to prison.
Rajack
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Oh god.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Can I still be around my kids if I grab a pitch fork too?
I'm no dentist but those don't look like baby teeth to me. Look how long the "root" is.
bobawesome
Member
Excuse me, I have to go brush my teeth.
Delta Assault
Member
The tooth fairy's real, and it's funded by the government?
They almost certainly are baby teeth.
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Jotamide
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Make an example out of him, give him at least 10 years. Human garbage.
StanleyStutters
Member
My old dentist did some shady stuff like this, but that was more along the lines of unnecessary billing, lying about what insurance covered, etc. Nothing like this, that's just terrible.
Rajack
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all dentists do that. This is monstrous.
ginger ninja
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These are all civil suits if i am not wrong, where the fuck are the criminal charges against this monster, stuff sounds like something straight of a horror movie..Fuckkk
Random Painted HIghway
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What a sick sick greedy bastard.
As to why criminal charges wouldn't be pressed, I would imagine that it is due to medical necessity charges being incredibly difficult to prove for criminal charges. Factor in that this guy is 78 years old and agrees to give up his license and you have the recipe for not filing charges. It would take a special prosecutor to take this case on, speaking frankly.
That the board allowed this guy to practice for decades with multiple complaints and suits is the real issue-they are almost always going to catch wind of issues before the state medicaid program does and rare is it that they will do anything other than a slap on the wrist until too much damage is done.
Unfortunately the way state medicaid programs are set up and run really lead to this scenario, this is not an uncommon occurrence. Usually it is just billing for services not actually rendered, but you do run across these habitual over-treaters like this.
As to why criminal charges wouldn't be pressed, I would imagine that it is due to medical necessity charges being incredibly difficult to prove for criminal charges. Factor in that this guy is 78 years old and agrees to give up his license and you have the recipe for not filing charges. It would take a special prosecutor to take this case on, speaking frankly.
That the board allowed this guy to practice for decades with multiple complaints and suits is the real issue-they are almost always going to catch wind of issues before the state medicaid program does and rare is it that they will do anything other than a slap on the wrist until too much damage is done.
Unfortunately the way state medicaid programs are set up and run really lead to this scenario, this is not an uncommon occurrence. Usually it is just billing for services not actually rendered, but you do run across these habitual over-treaters like this.
Clinton514
Member
The money thing isn't what bothers me, it's the kid screaming. I'd choke that bastard out myself if he did that to my child.
TheGreyHulk
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Thats so wrong. I wanna take a big daddy's drill to his entire face. Wtf is wrong with people?
Rajack
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The whole thing together is even worse.
Banana Aeon
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Well...Next time I go to the dentist, I have to see if it's time for my wisdom teeth to be extracted...
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
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