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Yes, average wait time is 7 minutes! Yes, 100% approval rating. Since the asked two people, whom they probably paid!!!
Senator, you may be a fine man, you may be a smart man. But no one would know by listening to what you are saying today.
What are you going to say when this company ends up under Federal investigation like Small Smiles? Will you tell us how great the place is then? Did you even check to see if they were being investigated before stepping up to that podium?
Since you want to take credit for this house of horrors, are you going to take the blame as well?
Maybe we should send all the complaints to your office!!
Senator Cardin’s boastful public statement from August 18, 2011.
Maryland Ranks First In Providing Child Dental Care
Armando TrullAugust 18, 2011 - Four years ago, 12-year-old Diamonte Driver from Prince George's County died from a brain infection created by an abscessed tooth because his mother was unable to get him adequate dental care. This death spurred Maryland to address this inadequacy, and now, things in the state are vastly different.
Maryland was ranked first in providing dental care for children in a recent Pew Center study.
White Plains NY
August 12, 2011
A former Mount Kisco resident and Greenburgh dentist is accused of possessing child pornography.
Dr. Henry Webster, of Greenburgh-basedWebster Dental Group (Scarsdale P.O.), was arraigned in Mount Kisco Justice Court on Thursday because he lived in the village when the alleged offense took place, according to DA spokesman Lucian Chalfen.
Now a resident upstate in Elizabethtown, NY, Webster was released on $5,000 bail, the Westchester County District Attorney's office announced.
Webster, 56, was charged with one felony count of child pornography possession (the official term is "Possessing an Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child").
The DA's office announced that it received an external hard drive belonging to Webster on May 6 of this year. After an investigation, the DA office claims, images of children under 16 years old were found. The DA's office also claims that Webster was interviewed on July 22 and admitted to downloading and storing the images.
Webster could not be reached for comment. His next court date is Aug. 25.
I took this pictures in the summer of 2008, 6 months after I began hearing of these dental mills abusing children.
This is the Kool Smiles in Mechanicsville, VA. Located in a strip mall on Mechanicsville Pike.
Appears they are still using the same ole tactics; make mom feel guilty. This disgusting!!!
To see all the reports on Kool Smiles click here
The number of children 17 and younger getting orthodontic treatment has grown 46% over the past decade to 3.8 million in 2008,... figure available from the American Association of Orthodontists
The association doesn't break the number down further by age, but Lee W. Graber, the Association's president, estimates that in his own practice 15% to 20% of the 7- to 10-year-olds he sees get treatment.
"Fifteen years ago we rarely saw kids until they were teenagers," Dr. Graber says...
In the U.S., the shift to earlier treatment dates back to around 1990, the year the orthodontists association began encouraging the screening of 7-year-olds, with magazine ads and videos aimed at parents. Better diagnostic technology also has led to more early treatment. Increased insurance coverage has played a role, too...[ Basically saying a market was created to rake in the dough? Shocking!
I’m not really sure who is the most disgusting, the dentist or the women. Geez.
Boston Herald
August 12, 2011
Larue J. Sweet
A disgraced dentist who “lost everything” because he overprescribed prescription painkillers and anxiety medication to at least nine female patients in exchange for fondling their breasts and slapping their bottoms avoided prison but drew six months on house arrest at his sentencing yesterday.
“I left my staffers suddenly unemployed. I left my patients without care. My children are in counseling because of my actions. My grandchildren are embarrassed and have distanced themselves from me. I have lost everything,” Dr. Steven Miller, 69, of Wareham yesterday told U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. in a breaking voice.