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