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Why This Dentist Helps You Sue Your Old One


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00:00:00.000 | As a policy, I'd never charge for a second opinion unless we had to take another x-ray.
00:00:03.980 | But if it's just a quick look, it's 15 minutes.
00:00:06.400 | I did that for the betterment of the profession.
00:00:08.360 | I wanted patients to do well through the process.
00:00:12.060 | And it wasn't because I wanted them to stay with me.
00:00:14.200 | A lot of the time I would send them back and say, you know what?
00:00:16.380 | They're right.
00:00:17.260 | Or it would be a lot of these second opinions are about bad dental work.
00:00:20.900 | And then I would send, I would give them an option.
00:00:24.520 | There's a very inexpensive option.
00:00:26.400 | Instead of hiring a lawyer, there's a peer review system.
00:00:29.560 | And I would hook them up with that.
00:00:30.800 | Every dental society has a peer review system.
00:00:33.200 | They go in, they have three dentists look at it.
00:00:35.880 | If it is bad dental work, then it gets written up.
00:00:39.020 | And their membership is at risk.
00:00:41.940 | So they return the money and then they move on.