If you're running an illegal dental office like Kenol Pyran, what would be the point of going out of your way to collect canal water to use on your patients, as opposed to using tap water that's available right there in the squalid apartment that functions as your office?
Something tells me that in addition to using canal water and reusing needles, Dr. Pyran probably didn't wash his hands after visiting the restroom. Or maybe he did, but he rinsed them with canal water. But really, who knows what dentists do when our backs are turned? It's a profession fraught with mystery.
The world's most slovenly dentist will serve a little time, then be deported back to the Third World cesspool he came from - Canada.
Posted by floridacracker at October 8, 2005 12:02 PMI think I ran into this guy's peers right here in, unfortunately. Thank God I had the sense to leave the "office" (times two, since I found two of these sort of places through my HMO) right after I saw the splatter on the wall above the sink, and that was after the previous dentist absconded with my gold crowns ("hazardous waste" he said, taking possession of the crowns he'd replaced).
You are so very right about the dental profession, if that's what it can even be called nowadays. Just TRY finding any regulatory agency, local or otherwise, to communicate problems with. Dental practices are the hiding places of pretty loathesome standards, no doubt about it, with a few exceptions by talented practitioners otherwise.
Posted by: -S- at October 8, 2005 05:52 PMThe gold crown taking was...let me be clear here, I have no infectious diseases, conditions, nor pose any public health threat and that's well substantiated as to my health status...I had two gold crowns replaced and the guy officiously grabbed the two old (gold) crowns and departed with them, refusing to return them to me. My current dentist denies there's any reason to not return them to "the owner" after being replaced, right here in the same state (same laws, etc.).
I've got a boatload of horror stories about substandard conditions and questionable behaviors by local dentist offices, is the point. Shocking just how little anyone monitors who does what and how and at what price.
Posted by: -S- at October 8, 2005 05:55 PMI was being facetious about dentists. Aside from having the highest suicide rate in the medical profession, they seem like a pretty innocuous bunch to me. Like accountants with a medical degree.
Then again, the first accountant I ever met turned out to be a murderer. Those were some still damn waters.
Posted by: Donnah at October 9, 2005 01:27 PM