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It is my experience, that dentistry has turned into fraud and permanent malpractice.

What can be done about it?

e s

Get a decent dentist. Cosmesis is not important. Health management and reconstruction are important. If your general dentist attempts ambitious work properly done by a periodontist or an endodontist, you are in trouble. May you never need a prosthodontist.

Be glad there aren't any proctodontists.

I have thought I had.
And now i would shoot him in the head as a warning.

They should not be paid for the procedures, should be on salary. They do now 500% unnecessary and harmful work.
So you can pay them twice what they have now, and still will be spending 2.5 times less on the dental care.

ES

sense ... you are sadly missing the extra part.

How is one to judge from this posting, and the many that have preceeded it, whether perhaps the problem is your lack of common sense.

My guess is that the dentist stopped drilling too soon.

A brilliant suggestion! Thank you, extrasense.

I visited a dentist in 1997 with the simple intention of having a wisdom tooth extraction. Midway through the procedure the dentist and I heard a distinct "crack". He followed this hideous noise with, "oops I think I just broke your jaw bone". That did not comfort me. Next he proceeded to file down a segment of my jawbone, which was protuding through my gumline.

After combating their billing department with threats of a lawsuit, they agreed to not charge me for the procedure. The gum had healed nicely.
Point: Add the word "lawsuit" to any potential liability and the wheels of justice are greased quite readily.

Sincerely,

Why we do not hear dentists being prosecuted for their crimes?

es

Who would prosecute the hand that fixes your bite?

Someone with zero expertise in dentistry commenting on the quality of dental services.

Likely the same number of IQ points required to complain to the attending surgeon after surviving a successful triple-bypass.

Why not require, that all dentists were salaried employees of hospitals?

ES

You are wrong about zero. Besides, if you suggest that fraud in dentistry is not common,
it is you who have never been to dentist.
Since it is impossible, you are not speaking the truth either way.

ES

See my dentist twice a year. Have never spent a single minute, or dollar, for which I didn't feel I got precisely what I asked for.

So far all you've done is complain. No facts. No verification. No explanation. Just whine, moan, and bitch.

How impressed should anyone be?