At the time he and his mother were living on welfare, so he assumed the first dentist was trying to take advantage of the welfare system . . . Days later I met a woman who said a dentist wanted to fill one tooth unnecessarily. A man at the bus stop had a missing upper front tooth, accidentally knocked out by a dentist during a hygiene appointment. And a man I met at a meeting had his jaw broken by a dentist during a wisdom tooth extraction. His mouth had to be wired shut, and he suffered permanent damage to his face and teeth.
Damage resulting from dental malpractice usually is permanent.
A woman on the bus saw the dental petition I had and gave me the story of what happened to a friend of hers. A dentist let the drill slip and the drill went through the patient's lip. The dentist then took some heavy thread and stitched the lip together. It became infected, with serious complications. This is only a sampling of the stories I heard.