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...extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting to anything more drastic than a tooth cleaning...
...avoid exorbitant fees, Denholtz suggests, try a little new-fashioned comparison shopping. According to the American Dental Association's 1975 fee survey, national U.S. averages are $10 for a silver filling on one tooth surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said...
Other tips: beware the dentist who keeps people waiting for hours, fails to ask for a complete medical-dental history during the first visit, works without assistants, does not take X rays, wants to extract without suggesting alternatives for saving a tooth, does not use disposable needles to administer local anesthetics, charges unusually high or low fees, never explains his fees or procedures. If a dentist commits several of these violations, Denholtz recommends that patients should consider going elsewhere...
While Vik was racking up the low round for the tournament, Prendergast and Tervainen were engaged in a tooth and nail battle for medalist honors. Tervainen was comfortably in front of the green in two while Prendergast hit a drive that hooked to earth like a shot grouse. "He just quacked the sucker," said Donovan. "It was the worst shot I've ever seen. Everyone was gasping...
...venture, domiciled in Trenton, N.J., does not start out as a foursome. Wally (James Naughton), a public relations man with a sweet tooth for talk, exhorts his shy furniture-mover friend Alvin (Lenny Baker) to spice up his "mutual love experience" by moving an added woman into his marital chamber. Wally's personal idea of fulfillment is to appropriate Alvin's wife Cleo (Ilene Graff). Alvin, who sometimes makes Buster Keaton seem voluble, gulps, but broaches the proposal to Cleo...