6. Dr. Howard Schneider
Nobody can blame little kids for being scared of visiting the dentist; many adults would rather avoid them if they could. Dr. Howard Schneider is one of those guys who isn’t going to make this situation better anytime soon.
In May 2015, a six year-old girl came into his practice to have one tooth extracted. Four hours later, Dr. Schneider had removed SEVEN! The child also accused the dentist of choking and hitting her. Posting her daughters’ mangled mouth on Facebook to “tell everybody what happened,” she found that other families had suffered the same fate.
All their claims were eerily similar: unwanted extractions, hitting and choking. The reasoning behind this dentist’s horrifying actions came down to sheer greed. Thanks to Medicaid’s accounting, he was paid per tooth procedure. So he could cap one tooth twice, then extract it and get paid for three procedures.
Investigations found that he collected $4 million in reimbursements in the last five years. In 1995, Schneider was sued for allegedly putting 16 crowns in a three-year-old’s mouth! By the end of May, Schneider had shut down his practice.
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