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for something like a crown or root canal if it fails. There is no ADA code that fits all these possibilities. There is no way I am going to have anybody I work with or myself do a prophylaxis with no evidence of bone loss on the x-rays and healthy looking gums with stain everywhere on these teeth for Delta $60
October 27, 2025
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extract all teeth and do dentures on healthy teeth. According to the perio chart they have Stage II Localized Periodontitis, due to up to 4mm of clinical attachment loss with less than 30% of the teeth affected (I counted 28%) I just attended a seminar with a Harvard professor/periodontist who said SRPs
October 27, 2025
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in January, identified at least 11 cases in which Rubel diagnosed healthy patients as having serious gum and bone infection, leading to unnecessary concern and potentially costly treatments. In one instance a patient began treatment based on his diagnosis, only to be told by another dentist
February 10, 2026
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the program. She was an ideal candidate for home orthodontics--30 years old, healthy teeth and gums and very minor orthodontic needs. It worked well on her, as any orthodontic plan would have done. She is in retainers now. This will no doubt become more popular as time goes by, and there will be patients
December 05, 2017
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teeth and gums healthy and prevent and treat oral health care issues and diseases. Oral health care is health care
February 13, 2024
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benefiting from strong business support, mentorship, and ongoing education. This model suits dentists aiming to grow their practice with a healthy work-life balance and access to cutting-edge technology and operational resources. Can anyone buy this? It doesn't mention any licensure requirements, makes
April 22, 2026
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screening looks normal. Your gums are in a healthy range, with the exception of some bleeding I'm concerned about on the lower left molars, so please keep flossing so this area doesn't progress. You have some staining on your upper left molar that is concerning, but we are just going to keep
December 12, 2014
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practices who struggle will be the ones that cant decide which tier they want to be, and try to do both at the same time. Services covered The Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) will help cover the cost of various oral health care services that keep your teeth and gums healthy and treat problems
December 20, 2023
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any sleep either. Lawyers prefer cases with obvious serious results. Gum disease is the patients fault. We get requests for records in car accident cases, workman's comp cases, other lawsuits not relating to dental. I did once actually get a hundred dollars from a lawyer. He was working a car
March 04, 2026
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had contacted Amato after seeing her advertise dental services in a WhatsApp group chat. He agreed to pay $1,000 for a root canal and provided a $300 deposit before the appointment. When he arrived at the office in South River, authorities say Amato injected his gum with anesthetic, drilled
March 12, 2026
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?? I can't imagine all the things they had in common. She could be a girlfriend for a weekend, I'm sure the gum snapping and hair twisting could not be withstood longer than that. Karen's are so flippin wound up these days their "relationship" in public places will be called out. My buddy had a Karen
February 13, 2026
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and severe infection. She said she 'wanted to cry because of how they looked.' After the procedure, the same patient had to be treated with antibiotics due to a gum infection. Experts warn that infections in the mouth, left uncontrolled, can lead to serious systemic complications-including risks
February 12, 2026
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Dental Board earlier this month with failing to maintain a reasonable standard of competency in the practice of dentistry. The board alleged that at some unspecified time in the past, Lensch failed to recognize dark spots on a male patients gums as a potential sign of cancer. That failure, the board said
February 27, 2025
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will also be doing a gum graft on her on Wednesday, and then will be trimming her gingival margins of 8 and 9 to make them more even. She is in my chair today for a cleaning and to get a chipped tooth fixed, because she said these are things that he says he cannot do. I looked her in the eye
February 25, 2015
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this. Better times in your future coming! Thank you for the encouragement and advice! I will get through this eventually! Sorry you are going through this, it is such a painful thing, but, speaking for myself, three years post divorce I'm happier and mentally healthier, I hope the same for you
February 03, 2026
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been warning for years that remote aligner treatment without in-person exams and radiographs could miss gum disease, bone loss, cavities, and other contraindications. California became the clearest example of this pushback. In 2019, the state passed Assembly Bill 1519, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom
March 19, 2026
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for secondary damage. After that, options include over-the-counter mouthwashes, gels, sugar-free chewing gums or lozenges that stimulate saliva. Additionally, lifestyle changes, such as avoiding dry-mouth-worsening foods or drinks, can help. Dentists warn about Dry Mouth: Know its meaning, symptoms and treatment - The Times of India
November 03, 2025
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crown Fast forward a year - he contacts us and wants all his money back - he saw a dentist (corporate office) for a bump on his gum, but NO PAIN -other dentist recommended retreat endo -started endo but couldn't gain access - cut off the crown -he removed some gutta percha but not all; one canal
July 21, 2016
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will never do a prophy on a RP/S patient, but this guy is already complaining about your practice ( or owners practice. ) Red flag...see ya if you keep calling it deep cleaning you will have this problem. SRP is gingival therapy, gum tx, perio tx....stop calling it deep cleaning. what is the big deal
November 10, 2020
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, my Dr. always told me that nausea is a sign of a healthy pregnancy. Best wishes. That really sucks- but it's his business and he can do whatever he wants unfortunately. My advice is to suck it up hopefully the morning sickness will get better once you are in the 2nd trimester (that's what always
May 10, 2016
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said they were already redone 2 times last 2-3 years. I recommended new crowns. Within 2 wks, she was scheduled, crowns were prepped and temp was made. During the cr prep, found the gum overgrown between 2,3, and to try to achieve the ferrule, margin had to be deep. She came back about a wk later
November 29, 2016
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Im a solo private practice owner in California. I have a pretty small office (3-ops) and a part time schedule.Like many private practices in my area, we have a long wait time for non-urgent new patient appointments and also for hygiene.Today I had a guy call the office saying that his gums felt
November 11, 2022
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French dentist jailed for mutilating patients with unnecessary work. Lionel Guedj got rich by carrying out work on healthy teeth of low-income people in Marseille, court told. A multi-millionaire dentist in France has been jailed for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighbourhoods
August 14, 2024
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79 year-old man with relatively healthy dentition has given my hygienist a hard time when she wants to take his vitals during the last few appointments (I didn't know this until she told me after his last appt. I sent him this letter, and his response was below: He recently calls my office
January 27, 2015
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be considered malpractice ?If you place a filling and accidentally drill a little gum tissue away is that also malpractice ? How about if you nick your tongue with your bur ? Malpractice ? I dont think it is. Heard of a case that pt was suing because they had trismus and they said that medial pterygoid
September 16, 2023
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: an invasive teeth-cleaning procedure along the gum line, usually done over three or four visits. While the procedure can be helpful if a patient suffers from severe gum disease, it can erode gum tissue that cannot grow back. Dentists can charge between $800 and $1,200 for each procedure, while
May 18, 2021
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. Finally, he's a minor and everything you see or do needs to be run past the parents. I've never seen a 16 year old but have several high schoolers who are 18. If you did see a 16 year old, I wonder if you could approach it like this: I know you're chewing because I can see evidence of it in your gums
July 23, 2018
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and said she gushing blood out of her mouth I had to cut some gel foam into tiny pieces and packed them into her gum to control her bleeding, from a prophy I have never even seen that much blood even when I do full mouth extraction.
December 18, 2017
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Typical Examples of Dental Malpractice Lawsuits: • Incorrect dental procedures resulting in death. • Adverse response to anesthesia causing other serious medical complications. • Harming the face while receiving dental treatment. • Tooth weakness and gum issues following dental
November 09, 2014
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decides to go to a Whitening Salon and it doesn't work out I guess that's the way the gums fall. :-) If this passes then it will only be a matter of time and the states will require a new whitening license for the whitening salon owners to protect the public from more people than the just
February 13, 2016
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and files to shape the material to fit, resulting in bulky teeth with bleeding gums. The patient filed a police complaint after already paying nearly $2,000, and Solomon allegedly didn't show up to a follow-up appointment for the patient's pain and bleeding. Police began their investigation and found
September 30, 2024
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Pasco Florida dentist Dr. Miranda Smith arrested for Medicaid fraud accused of finding cavities in a child when none existed and pulling healthy teeth to sell patients dentures in order to obtain higher Medicaid payments. Another red letter day for our profession. Where do these people come
June 12, 2014
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. In KS, EFDA can scale above the gums. And any level of assistant can polish. The only thing an EFDA can do as far as prophylactic duties is coronal polishing, so if it's anything more than that, it's supervised malpractice. Here's a full functions chart for Florida, this is a direct download link
April 09, 2015
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I have a patient that came to me at the beginning of the year for a problem, he had not been in in a very long time. Initially the issue was related to pain in the gums in the area of 19/20. We cleaned the area and did not find debris, however the gums were inflamed so after the cleaning we hoped
July 06, 2015
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teeth was necessary, according to the board. Specifically, the radiographs show the majority of the teeth extracted were restorable and contained long, healthy roots and only mild bone loss, the report said. Hes got 23 or 24 teeth that are savable, said dental board member and dentist Dr. Russell
March 20, 2025
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told him to just try it and I'll tell him in six months. Six months later I checked his puffy gums again and told him no dice. He obligingly when back to flossing regularly. Sometimes people just want to hear what they want to hear. Dont sweat it and definitely don't get into a debate with them about it. You won't change their mind and you'll just get aggregated for no good reason.I hate autocorrect.
September 07, 2017
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to be a dentist. Not just because of his lineagehis father is a retired orthodontist and one grandfather a dentist and the other a physicianbut because of his strong desire to help people stay healthy and feel good about themselves. Dr. Nabers is a practitioner, a teacher and a student. His
June 02, 2020
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We have been opening for emergencies or something that is about to be an emergency such as endodontics, pain/extraction, broken tooth. what others are considered urgent? perio patient who has swelling bleeding gums? broken filing? temp crown is broken tooth is very sensitive. you all know
March 31, 2020
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of 1 paid hour for every 30 hours worked, ( 40 hours of unused time can also be carried over) accrual clock started April 2014. Sick time can also be used for parents,kids significant others, even grandparents!! So basically healthy employees will start to feel penalized after a while for being
November 12, 2014
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for more than 10 years and has more than 2.4 million members in the state. I don't see how Teledentistry could work. The patient calls you with a toothache. How do you examine the area, percuss the teeth, palpate the gums, or have the patient take an x-ray? marksmall, yes, but think about
August 20, 2020
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Surgeon fined US$3K for removing kidney he thought was tumor. The Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman's healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor. He should've watched kindergarten copSNOT A TUMAH
January 12, 2019
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been 2 weeks and she said everything was feeling fine besides the gum around 7, thats when Informed her we should examine it. had time the next day and she agreed to come in, but no shower and havent heard anything since. Scheduled to deliver next week, well see if she shows. you probably didnt
December 07, 2022
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I tried searching around for this but couldn't find anything about it. About the middle of last year there was a case in kissimmee, fl where a GP had another GP coming into his office to do OS cases (wisdom teeth extractions with sedation) and in one of those cases the the young healthy pt didn't
February 14, 2017
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and suffering. He claims the original crown we did 3 years ago never fit well and he always trapped food in the crown causing gum pain. He stated that the constant gum pain caused the need for endo. I originally advised him that he might need endo when the crown was done. Does he have a case? He
May 29, 2023
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I need some advice on what to do in this situation. A 90 year old walked into my office one day with a tooth in her hand asking me to put it back. It was a cantilever bridge 13 abutment 12 pontic broken at gum line. 11 was part of a long span bridge 14 and 15 were crowns. I first asked patient
June 22, 2015
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to pay and work out well for the patient and wind up being a better service overall.@laldds tooth was completely left unrestorable, it was badly decayed to begin with, no hope of saving even with crown lengthening. Decay was DO close to gum line. I did restoration on next yooth as well which was very
November 11, 2016
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and healthy and could pick up the 400 lbs of dead weight on my legs. Be kind and dismiss for patient and staff safety. Just write a letter to dismiss her from the practice. TDIC has a no fault dismissal letter that is pretty good. Include that you don't have the equipment/facilities to provide
February 08, 2025
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, but deep cavity). I put in some vitrebond and finished the filling with composite. Polished and finished restoration. Pt comes in the next week for some other fillings. Only complains that her gum near #31 is swollen, but the restoration feels better. I get a phone call a week later that pt is having
February 10, 2015
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the law that has to be followed. To the OP - a more general resource would be: Thank u Randy!!!!! The state's paid sick leave law was established by the Healthy Workplace Families Act of 2014, and provides that any employee who works in California for 30 or more days within a year from
November 10, 2017
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to Delta Health Systems, which administered the UPS health care plan, that falsely billed the plan for work that was never performed. In many other instances, Lewis performed unnecessary dental work on healthy teeth of the UPS employees, including root canals, and claims were submitted to Delta
February 24, 2014
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