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FRONTLINE; Dollars and Dentists
06/22/2012
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Dollars and Dentists
- Program Number
3018
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can't afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broken safety net. 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 as dire - and bankrupting. While millions of Americans use emergency rooms for dental care, at a cost of more than half a billion dollars, corporate dental chains are filling the gaps in care, in some cases allegedly overcharging patients or loading them with high priced credit card debt. Correspondent Miles O'Brien investigates the flaws in our dental system and nascent proposals to fix them.
A FRONTLINE production with Yellow River Productions in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity.
- Duration
00:56:10
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- News
- Public Affairs
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Dollars and Dentists,” 06/22/2012, GBH Archives, accessed October 12, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4FC4359666B04AFDB908386FBE3EBFF4.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Dollars and Dentists.” 06/22/2012. GBH Archives. Web. October 12, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4FC4359666B04AFDB908386FBE3EBFF4>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Dollars and Dentists. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4FC4359666B04AFDB908386FBE3EBFF4