Open Wide: Dentists under pressure to drill ‘healthy teeth’ for profit | USA TODAY

A fast-growing dental chain pressures dentists to hit revenue targets daily, leading to claims of root canals and treatments patients don’t need.
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16 comments

  1. Another classic example of letting Corporations destroying private businesses, the only thing that matters is money for their stockholders.

  2. “Every patient was a dollar sign” this too accurate to misunderstand describing mad men with criminal minds

  3. Ninety nine percent if not Everything about this documentary is the truth. People just don’t know that this alternate reality exists in the medical world hidden in plain sight.

  4. WOW. This is sick. everything is becoming a business and lack of patient care. How fast they can finish each patients. DO NO HARM…

  5. That’s happened to me many times by one dentist I trusted. She always had a huge list of things wrong with my teeth. Finally the insurance caught them

  6. People who live in the north like Ohio & Michigan etc please please share this video with your friends and family asap!! Unfortunately, this is very very real could even be happening to your children! I had one of those “dollar sign dentist” or NADG dentists, he said I had to have all my top back teeth removed AND bottoms and he would try to fix the front but he gave me caps that looked like horse teeth after filing my teeth down to stubs then the caps fell out! 🥺 Needless to say my Beautiful smile was ruined, I’m basically a hermit who never smiles or talks freely to others besides my family because I’m embarrased I have little to no teeth left.
    I have to get dentures at 35 years old… that dentist ruined my life! 😞🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷
    I’m so traumatized of going to another dentist to get dentures because of what happened to me.

  7. Its funny how my dentist always has a treatment plan that just cost around the same amount as my insurance max yearly payout🤫

  8. So many shady dentists out there. When I moved to California 20 years ago I was shocked at how difficult it was to find an honest dentist. So many of them in ca LOVES the deep cleaning nonsense. One even went so far as to say I was in imminent danger. I walked out. That was 18 years ago. Teeth still healthy. Still haven’t found an honest dentist here. I fly back to nyc frequently and I just go back to my dentist there who is a family friend. She assured me there was nothing wrong with my teeth.

  9. Children on Medicaid have to go through a group. My grandson has a mouth full of cheap messed up metal in his mouth now. They didn’t even do a neat job.

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