If I had a child under the care of Smiles 4 Life, I would simply find a new dentist and not tell the new dentist about her previous dentist. That way Smiles 4 Life would not get a request for records, and would have no way of knowing if my child was under the care of a new dentist.
Then Smiles 4 Life could threaten, cajole, and report me to their heart’s content, and I would have no problem producing records from the new dentist, if it finally came to that.
What is this country coming to.
Challenge this crap in court.
Not making 6 month dental appointments for your kid IS NOT “abuse and neglect”!!
They may be “mandated reporters” for “abuse and neglect”, but it is THEY who decided to include dental care in that category!!!
Forcing anyone to do business with a particular entity, such as was the case with Zer0Care, is becoming a common liberal tactic.
And suppose a parent is told to schedule a follow up appointment, drops that dentist because of hamfisted tactics, takes the kid to another dentist, and gets reported by Dr. Hamfist anyway, what recourse is there? Does the report remain anonymous?
For that matter there are very probably ways for dentists to detect a child having been physically abused."Hummm...the textbooks say that the only possible explanation for this kid's teeth looking like this is if he had been repeatedly punched in the mouth".And in such a case that must be stopped.
But failure to appear for a cleaning? Yikes!!!!
Thanks to Obamacare, Medical professionals have become Big Brother. They are required to ask questions that are very personal and frankly none of their business. I fret that the push to deny guns to those who Doctors decide are ‘mentally unstable’ will be used on people who really aren’t ‘mentally unstable’. The Medical profession needs to get back to medicine, not politics.
Young doctor with bills to pay I bet.
Ran into this with a doc once. Smiled, and said I was going to a new practice. Made the doc VERY ANGRY.
Nothing after that, but made me curious.
This is enough to make me an anti-Dentite!
Goes along with single payer government health care.
Put and keep your faith in God Almighty and you will see lucifer cast into the lake of fire. He will be there forever!!!
Thank you, Jesus.
For anyone else curious. And if I had gotten that letter, I’d be calling my lawyer.
Seems like blackmail to me.
Selling smiles is selling the primate gesture of submission
This may result in some Pediatric Dentists, needing total total upper and lower jaw Dentures or Dental implants, due to angry parents FISTs.
So upsetting.
Many dental treatments are life shortening or neurotoxic. You aren’t a neglectful parent if you’ve researched and chose not to undergo certain controversial treatments.
Have we forgotten pro-choice, pro-freedom? You can outright KILL your baby but you can’t choose to avoid fluoride (rat poison)?
If you can...
The doctrine of Parens Patriae is wrong. Legislation to at least partially remedy the problem is long overdue. Push legislation to require a full body of evidence and jury, if demanded by the accused, in cases of child abuse accusations. Push it, until it passes.