Hey, how about a paper clip in that root canal!

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FALL RIVER, Mass.—A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of putting paper clips in patients' mouths during root canals, then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have used.

The state attorney general announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted former Fall River dentist Michael Clair last week on charges including assault and battery, larceny, submitting false claims to Medicaid and illegally prescribing prescription drugs.

Prosecutors said Clair, who now lives in Maryland, was suspended by Medicaid in 2002. He allegedly hired other dentists for his clinic and filed claims under their numbers between August 2003 and June 2005. He's also accused of illegally prescribing drugs to staffers who returned medications to him.

Clair is to be arraigned April 8. A telephone listing could not be found for him and it's unclear if he has an attorney.

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At least he never got caught for all the other stuff he did to them while they out.

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great. I hate the dentist as it is and now I gotta worry about shit like this

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sick bastard. give him root canals with no anesthesia.

off-topic...i lived in Fall River years ago, that's where Lizzie Borden did her deeds.

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Must be something in the water.

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I wonder if he modeled himself after Steve martin in Little Shop Of Horrors?


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from Boston Herald today April 8.
may one of his former patients find him, cuff him, and use a pair of pliers on his teeth, sans anesthesia.

NEW BEDFORD — A former Fall River dentist accused of Medicaid fraud for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals has been released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty.

Prosecutors say 51-year-old Michael Clair, who now lives in Maryland, was ordered by a judge in New Bedford Superior Court today to have no contact with the alleged victims.

He’s accused of defrauding Medicaid of $130,000, assault and battery, larceny, and illegally prescribing drugs.

Prosecutors say Clair was suspended by Medicaid in 2002, but continued to file claims from August 2003 to June 2005 by using the names of other dentists in his practice.

Clair’s court-appointed lawyer, John Dingee, said he could not comment because he did not yet know all the details of the case. yeah, right.