Reply #20: Poor nutrition, poor hygiene, and simply being poor [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

May have contributed to this.
Before jumping on the bandwagon to crucify this mother, I would love to know if she had dental insurance.
Would also like to point out that I knew a woman that was on Medicaid.
It limited WHICH dentists her children could visit. The waiting lists to get in were sometimes 6-8 months for these dentists. When she finally did get an appointment, it was cancelled 3 times before actually seeing the dentist.
The dentist used laughing gas...but she commented that it took a "very short" time to get the teeth repaired.
A few years later, when she had graduated from school and had health and dental insurance, she took her children to a GOOD dentist.
Her children had numerous cavities and surprise of all surprises? The teeth that the Medicaid dentist had done didn't seem to have ever been repaired. The GOOD dentist said it would be difficult to prove, as the fillings could have been faulty and might have just fallen out, but his best guess is that they were never done.
People take advantage of poor people everyday.
It's hard to say by the information given if this was the situation, but at 5 years old with teeth rotted this badly, it almost makes you wonder if this child didn't have some underlying gum disease or something that had never been detected.