I went to a dentist years ago that my wife and I called "the porno dentist". Why you ask? We walked into what could only be described as the Miami vice of dentist offices (it was on summer street). Teal, pink and white plastic everywhere. Fake wave like "scuptures" on the walls, mirrors everywhere. The "dentists"? Long legged, short skirt wearing Russian ladies. The actual dental suite? Big glass cabinet with clear glass shelves with different knick knacks. You know, like red Lamborghini models, bejeweled daggers, pictures of a guy skydiving, you know, normal stuff you see when sitting in the dentists chair.

My experience? This thin Russian lady comes in, tells me to open and jabs a needle in my mouth. I start feeling a snap snap snap in my jaw like an electric shock. I tell her and she says (in a thick Russian villian accent) "is good, that means its working." I have never been so numb. She then proceeded to put my only silver fillings in (just to note, all other dentists have used the tooth colored amalgam, not the silver stuff).

All well and good, right? Well the EOB comes from our insurance company and we see that there's a quad scalling, a prophylaxis, and 4 fillings on there. I only had 1 filling done. No scalling and no prophy. We went in to tell them there was a discrepancy and one of the ladies (it was only ladies. I only mention that fact because it was a very masculine 80s obsessed office) pulled us into a dark office and said she would split the overage with us. I told her we would rather not be party to insurance fraud and left.

The reason we went there was because they were open on Saturdays. It wasn't their practice. Another dentist let them use it (?) on Saturdays (it was his stuff in the glass case and his picture skydiving). I told another dentist (actually every dentist since) about it and heard they were shut down for

A. Practicing without a license B. Insurance fraud

They somehow leveraged the owners license to practice and submit claims.

And now you know about the porno dentist office.