Dollars and Dentists

54m

6

In a 2012 joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity, correspondent Miles O’Brien uncovers the shocking consequences of a broken dental care system. Poor children, entitled by law to dental care, often cannot find a dentist willing to see them. Others kids receive excessive care billed to Medicaid, or major surgery for preventable tooth infections. For adults with dental disease, the situation can be just as dire and bankrupting. While millions of Americans use emergency rooms for dental care, corporate dental chains are filling the gaps in care, and in some cases have allegedly overcharged patients or loaded them with high priced credit card debt.

Cast

Sarah Childress

Self / Reporter

Self / Correspondent

Self / Reporter

Self / Reporter

Crew

Director of Previsualization

Chris Fournelle

Broadcast Producer

Broadcast Producer

Series Director

Writer, Supervising Producer

Writer, Producer

Gale Rosner Sargent

Shady Hartshorne

Assistant Editor

Assistant Editor

Executive Producer

Michael Sullivan

Executive Producer

Raney Aronson-Rath

Missy Frederick

Gretchen Gavett

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

Camera Operator

Post Production Coordinator, Executive Story Editor

Christopher D. Anderson

Christopher Hedge

Louis Wiley Jr.

Editorial Consultant

Zachary Stauffer

Additional Photography

Additional Photography

Editorial Manager

Michael H. Amundson

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff, Graphic Designer

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

Coordinating Producer

Coordinating Producer

Research Assistant