It's poor people like you that make me mad

The continuing saga of the shady dentist. Got a bill from the dentist who told me I had four cavities and told Mr B he needed $5000 worth of work done. Went and got a second opinion (since I haven't had a cavity since I was 14 and Mr.B is not toothless)and, alas, no cavities and Mr B needs $1000 of work done.

So, called the dentist, told him my cavities healed and would like to negotiate the bill or I could go to the dental board. In his words, it's poor people like me that are his problem. He told me I'm one of those people who go to lawyers and raise his insurance. I told him he was scamming us for a boat payment and I've never consulted a lawyer in my life, never had a reason.

Basically, the man is a scamming a-hole and my personal mission in life is to see that this never happens to another of his patients.

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How can he get away with telling you that you have cavities when you don't?

I think you should turn him in to the dental board. And get copies of the xrays he took.

in America suffers from a diesease called Capitalism, which promotes and encourages greed.. the reason our boys are stationed all over the world.. to control and dominate the rest of the world.. all for the corporations to continue to scam people all over the world.. This shit's not going to get any better in this country until they change Capitalism.. it will be the downfall of Amerika.

the 1920's, where there are no laws to protect consumers. UGH!

This SOB deserves to get his license yanked. What a prick to talk to you like that not to mention him trying to scam you.

what a prick.

dentists everywhere. Glad you caught it though. :hi:

and I really want people to know about it. He could of rob us blind and we would never had known.

By the way..Mr B says you are too nice to have the name Mrs Grumpy.

I mean why didn't you report him straight away? Would you really consider letting him in your mouth after running that scam past you?

since it was obvious he was a scam

I went in to have a broken tooth repaired last summer. While there, I scheduled a cleaning and exam, and got lucky enough to get in the next day. They took x-rays and told me I had severe periodontal disease, several cavities, two teeth about to abcess, cracked fillings, and that I had at least two crowns that needed to be replaced (and I had no crowns older than five or six years!). Estimate for all the work needed? Seven grand.

I never went to them again. I have a new dental practice now. I did indeed have a molar with cracked, old fillings, and the entire tooth wound up cracked. But this practice told me that on first inspection, my crowns look fine and that I may have the beginning stages of gum disease (which can be stopped in its tracks), but nothing to the level the other practice told me. I'm aware that I have cavities between two teeth that are next to each other very tightly, and I need at least one root canal, possibly two. But the work I need is not nearly as extensive as the first practice claimed.

Anyway...if he's lying to you about cavities, he needs to be reported to the board.

Did I mention he suggested dentures to my 30 yr old husband? The other dentist said a root canal and two cavities

Wow! If he needed dentures, wouldn't he have noticed some serious mouth trouble before now? That's scary.

see my post below, they caused ringin in my ears which has been going on for almost a decade. I could lose my hearing. If I could change only one thing in my life, it would be that I would NEVER have had the root canals. I won't have another one, either.

There is plenty of info and books out on this subject, like "It's All In Your Head" and most recently "Tooth Truth" about the effectes of dental compounds on health and the immune system.

Please tell your husband to be very careful and if he goes ahead make damn sure they do not use mercury amalgam within the root canal. But If it were a back tooth, I'd just have it pulled if I were him. His immune system will thank him.

Cant beat the price, and I always have a student and a Dentist looking after me. I recently had a root canal and a ceramic crown put on for 300.00 and a few hours of my time. They dont price gouge or pad the bill.

Could you PM me who you got the *second* opinion from?

him to the state dental board, with all of the documentation you have, along with a verification from your second dentist that the first one is full of shit.

Most dentists are ethical, decent people who really do try to do the best for their patients without scamming them or fucking them over. It's the ones like this that need to be stopped ASAP so they don't paint all their colleagues with the same brush.

If it was me, I'd tell the SOB I wasn't going to a lawyer, but if he talked to me like that again, HE would be the one that would need dental work and lots of it. I despise condascending pricks like that. :grr:

tmj, narrow pallet? check, from badly done braces

ringing in my ears, dead teeth leaching mercury into my body from unnecessary root canals? check, because I beleived them when they told me I needed root canals.

receding gums caused by highly acid saliva caused by years of metal silver mercury fillings changing the ph of my saliva? check, ad nauseum

in my humble opinion, the best thing for one's teeth is to stay the hell away from dentists.

perhaps have the back teeth sealed in childhood and then NEVER darken their doors again. If I had followed this advice my whole life probably would have turned out differently. I had symptoms of mercury toxicity when I was a child...I vomited convulsively, as well as having uncontrollable diarrhea, swollen glands, low immune system, chronic depresssion, kept getting tested for mono (negative 8 or 9 times) treated with antibiotics which led to a systemic yeast imbalance and symptoms akin to attention deficit disorder.

I HATE DENTISTS.

But I've said it all before...

I'm really started to think about getting mercury fillings replaced. There is alot of them I got when I was between 7-15 years old

I've had mine all removed to something that is actually about the same color as my teeth. I've had 3 cavaties filled in my back molars and yet you can't tell if you look at my mouth because of my new fillings

scamming dentist


Not really he does some pro-bono work (too much according to his wife/accountant) and does some barter work (one person cleaned my mother's house once a week for a month while mom was recovering from surgery-several thousands of work btw)

He's just trying to scam you and he got pissed when you called him on it. He's a loser.

And to think, I bought you scammers a beer.

treatments... just boggles the mind. :crazy:

This isn't a lawsuit - this is a guy who is scamming patients for extra money. He needs to be stopped because he's making you people "poor people" with his outrageous scamming