Dollars and Dentists (2012)

ALL 06/26/2012 (en) Documentary 54 Min
  • Release
    06/26/2012
  • Production
    FRONTLINE, Yellow River Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Dollars and Dentists
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story



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  1. Sarah Childress

    Self / Reporter

  2. Miles O'Brien

    Self / Correspondent

  3. Aurun Rath

    Self / Reporter

  4. Jill Rosenbaum

    Self / Reporter

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Casts : 4 , Crews : 57

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Dollars and Dentists (2012) 54 Min

ALL 06/26/2012 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 06/26/2012
  • Production
    FRONTLINE, Yellow River Productions
  • Original title Dollars and Dentists
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Gale Rosner Sargent, Chad Ervin, Shady Hartshorne, Jim Ferguson

    Editor

  4. Arun Rath, Missy Frederick, Raney Aronson-Rath, Jill Rosenbaum

    Producer