Ars Technica

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix most of her teeth with root canals and crowns, Carroll ...
Medical Xpress

Medi-Cal's dental care gap: Getting a tooth pulled is easy—much harder to get an implant

When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn't find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred ...
9NEWS

Would you let someone who's not a dentist pull your teeth?

Need a tooth pulled or a cavity filled? Forget the dentist. An increasing number of states are allowing or considering letting "dental therapists," professionals with a lower level of training, do the ...
Good Men Project

Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder to Get an Implant

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin ...