Dollars and Dentists
54 mins
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.
Sarah Childress
Self / Reporter
Miles O'Brien
Self / Correspondent
Aurun Rath
Self / Reporter
Jill Rosenbaum
Self / Reporter
Azmat Khan
Associate Producer
Robin Parmelee
Coordinating Producer
Gretchen Gavett
Associate Producer
Arun Rath
Producer
Carl Byker
Writer
Missy Frederick
Producer
Mark Dugas
Graphic Designer
Peter Lyons
Art Designer
Jack Combs
Sound Mixer
Raney Aronson-Rath
Producer
Christopher D. Anderson
Sound Mixer
Carl Byker
Supervising Producer
Katie Taber
Co-Producer
Varonica Frye
Unit Manager
Jill Rosenbaum
Producer
Christopher Hedge
Music
Gale Rosner Sargent
Editor
Thomas Bacsik
Sound
Michael Sullivan
Executive Producer
Jill Rosenbaum
Writer
Jeff Perlman
Camera Operator
Sarah Moughty
Coordinating Producer
Zachary Stauffer
Additional Photography
Eric Chapman
Sound Mixer
Mitch Wilson
Additional Photography
Mark Rublee
Cinematography
Philip Bennett
Editorial Manager
Chad Ervin
Editor
Fritz Kramer
Assistant Editor
John MacGibbon
Editorial Staff
Jason Breslow
Research Assistant
Megan McGough
Executive Story Editor
Eric Brass
Legal Services
Eric Gulliver
Assistant Editor
Paul Abowd
Researcher
Chris Fournelle
Broadcast Producer
Shady Hartshorne
Editor
Michael H. Amundson
Editorial Staff
Jim Ferguson
Editor
Mark Dugas
Editorial Staff
Megan McGough
Post Production Coordinator
Bill Rockwood
Web Designer
Martin Brody
Music Editor
Diane Hebert
Publicist
Katie Lanning
Editorial Staff
Rachel Marcus
Researcher
Jay Fialkov
Legal Services
Janice Flood
Legal Services
Sam Bailey
Director of Previsualization
Louis Wiley Jr.
Editorial Consultant
Scott Kardel
Legal Services
Jim Bracciale
Series Director
Diane Buxton
Publicist
Tim Mangini
Broadcast Producer
Carla Borras
Story Editor