Dental Treatment Abuse

Abstract

These case reports highlight dental treatment abuse performed by a quack on children. The anterior teeth of these children were metal capped using cement, which were otherwise healthy. The treatment was done on children without parental consent by a quack from Denmark who gave the reason as for resolving proclination of upper permanent incisors. The unanatomic, unaesthetic metal caps were removed after the child reported to the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry.

Dental quackery in India: an insight on malpractices and measures to tackle them

“…1 The illegal provision of oral care, dental quackery (DQ), can be harmful physically, emotionally, psychologically, and financially, because of either the treatment itself or inaccessibility to adequate treatment that might be helpful. 2 Quackery has been defined as 'the fraudulent misrepresentation of one's ability and experience in the diagnosis and treatment of disease or of the effects to be achieved by the treatment offered' . 3 The history of dental quackery parallels that of medical quackery, and it is increasing at an alarming rate; becoming a major concern in many countries around the world, including India.…”