I Am Not an Anti-Dentite

Sometimes dentists offer free clinics in schools to give dental care to low-income kids. (Great.) But sometimes also the management companies that run the school clinics over-prescribe treatments — like braces for kids with baby teeth — ostensibly because more treatments means more money from Medicaid. (Not so great.) Sydney P. Freeburg investigates for Bloomberg.

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