Tooth Fairies - Money For Pulling Another One
http://news.sky.com/story/993842/dentist-jailed-for-1-4m-nhs-fraud
A lot of scams have obviously been going on, not only in dental practices, but in medicine generally and much else besides! The dentist mentioned in the above article was proved to be utterly corrupt and should be barred for life from dentistry and medicine unless she is 100% supervised.
On smaller scales than the woman dentist mentoned above there are other dentists doing similar things! If it benefits the dentist they will often recommend private rather than NHS treatment. However, that won't necessarily be of benefit to the patient who has paid NI contributions to the UK government, some of which pay for NHS! There's confusion amongst the sheople/public about NHS/private treatment and economics.
Then there are dentists who push expensive treatments because there are big profits in it for them... Big Pharma push the dentists too, and bribe them!
Denis Menace went for a dental check-up. The dentist suggested quite a bit of work was needed. "Private" was recommended. But no reliable estimate of the cost could be given.
Menace thought he was being suckered in, with torture implements being waved before his face!
"Why have i been paying NI contributions all these years?" he asked. The dentist gagged on that.
"I'll have it on NHS," Menace said. The dentist choked on that.
Menace thought this dentist was going to be unreliable for NHS treatment for some reason suggested by the dentist's shifty and unusual behaviour. So Menace said he'd go to India and have all his teeth taken out there at the cost of only one toxic mercury (Hg) filling in the UK!
The dentist didn't like that at all, and told Menace he'd have to pay £10 for the check-up. Menace got up and walked out laughing, exposing all his bad teeth.
"Pull the other one!" he shouted to the red-faced dentist.
The dentist is still pushing his court case against Menace for non-payment. But Menace is in South India toothlessly chewing on vegetarian food, and quite happy with the outcome.
The dentist ran his Maserati off the road into the ditch on the way back from the court case, which Menace did not attend. He did that when he realized the court case was costing him much more than the £10 Menace refuses to pay!
Money for old teeth is little more than "Tooth Fairy" business. Sleep on it, and hope it turns into money when you wake up! Perhaps a deeply institutionalised and regulated "Tooth Fairy" profession needs shaking and waking up.
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