Scary kids' dentists on 20/20 last night.

[ThatsMyBarack]

This was a painfully disturbing story for the following reasons:

1. Four-year-olds were crying, scared to death, but the dentists weren't paying attention to that as they continued to drill the little ones' teeth.

2. A six-year-old kid with an almost full set of silver crowns which unnecessarily replaced perfectly healthy teeth.

3. Little kids up to age seven being wrapped in velcro-strapped "papooses". Looks like torture and punishment for being scared!

4. Kids being told they had cavities when they really didn't. SOunds like lying and torturing for profit!

I'm sorry if something like this has already been posted (I tried searching for it, but came up dry). I had something similar happen to be when I was seven in 1978. I had to make a return trip to the dentist because they said I had a cavity. Turned out he just wanted to put a silver crown on one of my back molars. Having my first major dental procedure at the age of SEVEN, I was scared out of my mind--and the dentist punished me for it by pounding me on the head! Great way to scare kids into brushing regularly and staying away from sweets, huh?