So You Think Your Dental Bill Was Big

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DENTAL NEWS: A 28-year-old South Carolina woman who claimed the Sexton Dental Clinic in Florence, SC extracted 13 of her upper teeth by mistake has won a $2 million jury verdict. Elizabeth Smith had gone to the Sexton Dental Clinic to get 3 teeth pulled and a partial denture made to fix a chipped tooth. Robert Scott D.D.S. instead pulled all 16 of Smiths upper teeth and evidence at the trial showed that the clinic also tried to cover up the mistake by entering false information into Smith’s record.

DENTAL VIEWS: And now the punchline... it will cost approximately $80,000 to fix the clinic's mistake with dental implants. The $80,000 does not include the price for x-rays.