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Mary Lynne Desmond thought she had found the perfect dentist. Philip Feldman, a graduate of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, had an engaging manner and seemed meticulous. Soon Desmond, a fourth-grade teacher who lives in Coram, N.Y., and her two children, husband, sister and brother-in-law all became Feldman's patients. "But in the last five or six years, he changed," Desmond recalls. "He did three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry...
...Acer's patients, Kimberly Bergalis, is near death; her plight and her understandable fury have moved millions to feel insecure when they go for teeth cleaning or an annual physical exam. Nearly 6,800 health-care workers in the U.S. are known to have AIDS -- including 170 dentists and dental hygienists, 730 physicians and more than 1,450 nurses. Should they tell patients? Should they get out of medicine altogether...
...danger is not from the doctor but from slipshod practices, says Jack Rosenberg, a Manhattan dentist and founder of a gay and lesbian dental guild. "Asking your dentist whether or not he is gay is not going to protect you," Rosenberg says. "Instead, you should ask, 'Do you sterilize your instruments? Do you follow standard infection control?' Those are the questions that will protect you." Rosenberg caused a ruckus last week when he publicly declared that he knew several dentists who are HIV-positive and that he advises them not to tell their patients...
Officials at the Hays County Jail in San Marcos, Texas, should have been suspicious when inmates bought hundreds of yards of dental floss from the prison commissary. The inmates were not concerned with dental hygiene. They braided the floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
After guards spotted the missing panes, the ladder was found under an inmate's mattress. Last week Arthur Harris Stier, 33; Ian James Holbs, 32; and David Gregory Surasky, 37, pleaded guilty to attempted escape. "It was ingenious," marvels Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Carruth. "That dental floss is strong. When it's braided, it's like nylon. If they had made it through the window and up the ladder, only a mesh screen stood between them and escape...