Coast Dental $10,000 spent to cap 56 year old teeth and they are falling out and decaying in less than a year!!! Tampa Florida

Yes, I understand that young dentists are forced to join these practices to pay the bills but this group are just plain criminal. There are so many great dentists out there and unfortunately I chose the wrong path. There should be some kind of regulation out there to protect the consumer but unfortunately there isn't. The state of Florida's DOH is a joke as they won't even try to touch this group. They will only go after the dentist that worked at, and was constrained by the group, not the group itself. And in the words of an attorney I know and have tremendous respect for, (they are few!), it would cost over $100k to prosecute a case that is for 10k...nobody will take it. This is a real shame for the people of this state, and another black eye for dental practices as a whole.

I am a dentist with 34 years of practice experience. Corporate dental chains are bad news. I know their advertisements are convincing, but patronizing them is a very bad idea. They pressure young dentists with high debt to produce ever-higher revenues.

You made a bad mistake going to a chain clinic. There are plenty of dentists who own their practices that will treat you well.