2015 Texas State Dental Board Continues Massive Failure to Protect Citizens

Aired WFAA July 20, 2015

All About Dentistry–Dr. Farahani confronted about kidnapping. One dentist flees the country.

 

 

DALLAS — This summer, News 8 discovered some dentists were luring kids to their offices with pizza and pocket change without their parents' permission, then billing Medicaid for dental procedures that were unneeded.

Tiara Truelove said she and six other kids were offered cash on the campus of Dallas Can Academy in March when they were on their lunch break. A dental recruiter then drove them to All About Dentistry on Scyene Road.

After the recruiter fed the students pizza, their teeth were cleaned and they were each given $10, Tiara said.

When her mother, Tiffney Truelove, found out, she went to the office to complain and said she was met with indifference by the staff.

"You picked up my — at the time 16-year-old — and took her to the dentist, and you bribed her, and you basically kidnapped her," Truelove said. "And after you fed her, you supposedly cleaned her teeth. And then you brought her back and you don't think that you did nothing wrong?"