Originally Posted by joebloggs
i think that might also be true for me when i was alot younger
I'm sure there are many private dentists who carry out unnecessary work but charge you a lot more than a NHS dentist
There needs to be more checks and scrutiny of NHS Dentists :-
How Birmingham dentist fleeced NHS of £1.4m
Scam artist Joyce Trail is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence after being found guilty of fraud - and she has now been struck off the register by the General Dental Council.
The GDC's Professional Conduct Committee heard that between April 2006 and March 2009, she submitted a staggering 7,141 fraudulent claims for payment to the NHS.
These included:
Pain treatment for patients she had not treated
Fitting dentures to people who did not need them
Fitting dentures to people who were not entitled to have their treatment paid for by the NHS
Provision of dentures to people who, it turned out, were dead
In total, £1,376,423 was paid to Trail that she was not entitled to.
http://www.itv.com/news/central/stor...st-struck-off/
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