Posted on 03/16/2022 7:42:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker
Scott Charmoli's patients' teeth were just fine, but fine wasn't making him enough money.
So the dentist in Jackson, Wis., drilled into and broke his patients' teeth in order to charge them for fixing the damage he'd caused, according to federal prosecutors. By doing so, Charmoli went from pulling in $1.4 million and affixing 434 crowns in 2014 to raking in $2.5 million and performing more than 1,000 crown procedures a year later.
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I am currently seeing a dentist who is crown happy.
And they are $2,000 a pop.
ummmm.... Big Pharma has been doing this for the last century.
Making us sick, and selling us the drugs to ‘cure’ us.
Too bad he didn’t make it to Brazil !
Scum lives.
I am suspicious as well.
When I was a kid I would have exactly three “cavities” to fix EVERY time I went to the dentist. After all, Dr Horowitz’s kids’ needed new shoes.
My kids have very few fillings, but back in the day I guess it was typical for a dentist to drill the hell out of molars. I’m surprised I kept mine as long as I did with fillings as large as they had, but they eventually fractured and there wasn’t enough tooth left to avoid the crown.
Good thing he didn’t become a proctologist. Who knows what you would find up there after a routine visit to his office!
Mouth Mechanics. Drill and fill. I’m still trying to figure out why a doctorate is required. Body shops don’t require it.
So I found another dentist and in the 8 years or so since I've had maybe three cavities total. He seems to make his money on x-rays (man I'm always due for a whole set of x-rays) and pushing mouth guards and cosmetic stuff. And suddenly I'm left wondering how changing to a dentist with a different business model has suddenly made my teeth more stable and less prone to cavities.
I have a small cavity in a tooth that already does have a lot of filling.
He told me that he was concerned that if he tried to fill it, it might crack, so he’s recommending a crown.
So it’s already not damaged. Mr. mm and I are very suspicious.
If what the Dentist said about my teeth grinding 40 years ago were correct, I should have nothing but nubbins for teeth by now.
Dentists these days are always looking to maximize your insurance coverage. If you haven't hit your yearly cap on insurance, they feel they've left money on the table.
Me, I make him "watch" a small cavity, and in almost every case he's been "watching" the same small cavity for literally years with no growth.
One great movie scene!
Oh yeah, and then the crowns eventually fail and have to be replaced. The next trick up their sleeves is there isn’t enough tooth left to recrown. That of course is because they ground it down too far in the first place. Final solution..extraction of what’s left and bridge. Thousands more dollars.
I had fillings put into four new adult teeth at 13 that had absolutely no decay—and I heard the dentist tell my mother that. He said the deep nature of the middle of the teeth would mean those were likely to decay in the future, so he convinces my mom and dad to put in silver amalgams into these completely healthy teeth.
I have never had a cavity elsewhere and I never had one before these were drilled. I have always taken care of my teeth.
I have wanted to beat up that dentist since the day he first told my mother that, after a 100% clean check up.
I swear, I think dentists go to conventions that offer info seminars on “How to increase you dental practice income” to learn these new tricks. Every time I go to the dentist...there’s a “new” thing. Not a problem with my teeth...but some new thing to sell me on.
This crooked dentist needs all of his teeth broken.
Somebody should get in this guy’s grill.
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