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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:00 PM May 2015

Horrifying Dentist Allegedly Choked Kids, Took Out Teeth for No Reason [View all]

Not The Onion!!

http://gawker.com/horrifying-dentist-allegedly-choked-kids-took-out-teet-1706062236

A Florida pediatric dentist and possible demon from your nightmares made flesh is being sued by nearly 50 patients for allegedly performing unnecessary surgery on kids—pulling out their teeth for no reason, and in some cases hitting or choking them.

Parents have been protesting outside Dr. Howard Schneider’s office for three weeks, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 brought national attention to the case on Wednesday, showing cell phone video of a child screaming in Schneider’s chair and interviewing a little girl who ended up with seven teeth pulled instead of just one.

“She was hyperventilating and had blood all over her, marks all over her,” the girl’s mom, Brandi Motley, said. “In the parking lot, she takes her gauze out, and all of her teeth are gone. What happened to all of her teeth?”...

After Motley put photos of her daughter’s dental horror on Facebook, the parents of the alleged victims started coming forward with their own horror stories, resulting in a class action for assault and battery. (Motley and her daughter dropped out from that suit, but are pursuing a separate medical malpractice case against Schneider).


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I suspect there's a molar to this story pinboy3niner May 2015 #1
I hope they get to the root of the problem KamaAina May 2015 #2
Poor guy was dammed if he do and dammed if he don't pinboy3niner May 2015 #3
I stopped reading at "Florida". Initech May 2015 #4
Iss it safe? WinkyDink May 2015 #5
LOL! pinboy3niner May 2015 #7
Florida Man got a dental degree. nt onehandle May 2015 #6
I'll bet they wore these masks CrawlingChaos May 2015 #8
If they have any teeth left to be taken care of. KamaAina May 2015 #9
Hopefully they were baby teeth CrawlingChaos May 2015 #11
Those masks are somehow scary and creepy. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2015 #12
Sadist monster- appalachiablue May 2015 #10
one at a time onethatcares May 2015 #13
I had a bad experience as a 5-year-old... AngryOldDem May 2015 #14
I'm normally against torture NewJeffCT May 2015 #15
Sounds like a combination of the Little Shop of Horrors dentist and Medicaid fraud jmowreader May 2015 #16
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