Dollars and Dentists

Dollars and Dentists

54 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2012

In a 2012 joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity, correspondent Miles O’Brien uncovers the shocking consequences of a broken dental care system. Poor children, entitled by law to dental care, often cannot find a dentist willing to see them. Others kids receive excessive care billed to Medicaid, or major surgery for preventable tooth infections. For adults with dental disease, the situation can be just as dire and bankrupting. While millions of Americans use emergency rooms for dental care, corporate dental chains are filling the gaps in care, and in some cases have allegedly overcharged patients or loaded them with high priced credit card debt.

Dollars and Dentists

54 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2012

Dollars and Dentists
In a 2012 joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity, correspondent Miles O’Brien uncovers the shocking consequences of a broken dental care system. Poor children, entitled by law to dental care, often cannot find a dentist willing to see them. Others kids receive excessive care billed to Medicaid, or major surgery for preventable tooth infections. For adults with dental disease, the situation can be just as dire and bankrupting. While millions of Americans use emergency rooms for dental care, corporate dental chains are filling the gaps in care, and in some cases have allegedly overcharged patients or loaded them with high priced credit card debt.
Producers PBS Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Original title Dollars and Dentists
Directors Jim Bracciale
Writers Megan McGough, Jill Rosenbaum, Carla Borras, Carl Byker

Cast

Sarah Childress

as Self / Reporter

Miles O'Brien

as Self / Correspondent

Aurun Rath

as Self / Reporter

Jill Rosenbaum

as Self / Reporter