State Kicks Kool Smiles in the Teeth

[Grumpy old man]

Kool Smiles? Krazy spelling!

[JRF-SAD]

What's going on with the Virginia Regional Dentist?

[lisanrj04]

hi sharon may i print out your comment here about kool smiles and present it to my lawyer?

i am sueing also for the same things.

Sharon wrote:

I personally took my children to a Kool Smiles office where they were given a total of 6 crowns that their current dentist has now said were completely unnecessary. Also, I filed a lawsuit against Kool Smiles for damage and injuries that my the 3 year old daughter received during her treatment. In my opinion, no responsible parent should ever settle for the lack of care received at Kool Smiles. Many private offices accept Wellcare and provide much more personalized, quality service.

[lisanrj04]

KOOL SMILES is an awful place to take your children. i made the mistake of letting them put crowns on my daughters baby teeth that aren't even due to come out til she is 11 yrs old and she is now 7 yrs. she is self conscious of her smile. kids tease her about not being able to eat fruit snacks, lollipops, and kid type candy that is sticky. please do not take your children to KOOL SMILES. they are rude unprofessional and always using the HAVE OR HAD word in anything they say to u. also have no way to give you copies of xrays they say are digital and how do we know that the copies from the computer are even our childs xrays.

[formerly employed]

They can copy your x-rays and as the records are YOUR right you can demand they give you a copy. I know it sounds harsh and please do not take it as such but fruit snacks are about the worst treat you can give a child. Gummy worms, swedish fish etc are all so bad. Yes I used to work there but there is some truth in what they tell you. Good luck and tell you daughter her smile is beautiful because it is hers and nobody else has one like it!

[Toothless in Norfolk]

lisanrj04. XRays are digital, but can be printed on high quality paper that is provided to the offices. The staff I worked with would always print them for patients and to submit to medicaid. I would also ask for a copy of the child's entire record. You may want to consider looking at the dentist license which should be posted in the office. You may want to get a second opinion to see if the work was required or properly done. Also, check or call the medicaid office in your location to see if this legit.

[left KS by choice]

they can print them on any paper, seen it done. All you have to do is tell them if they don't want to accommodate you know they might want to accommodate the Department of Public Health instead :)

[No Obama]

Can you imagine if Obama gets elected and he wants free medical or dental for everyone. these companies will make a lot of money and provide bad, unhealthy care to our children. The line will be so long, its pretty bad now.

[lisanrj04]

Toothless in Norfolk wrote:

lisanrj04. XRays are digital, but can be printed on high quality paper that is provided to the offices. The staff I worked with would always print them for patients and to submit to medicaid. I would also ask for a copy of the child's entire record. You may want to consider looking at the dentist license which should be posted in the office. You may want to get a second opinion to see if the work was required or properly done. Also, check or call the medicaid office in your location to see if this legit.

hi and thank you for your comments. i have notified another dentist and he gave me a second opinion and the crowns should not have been done just for one small cavity that could've been filled. we are sueing and i know it will make other parents see that kool smiles is worthless. thank you again and take care.

[people need to know]

you should contact 10 on your side news team as they have a nice file forming, ask for Derrick Rose

lisanrj04 wrote:

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hi and thank you for your comments. i have notified another dentist and he gave me a second opinion and the crowns should not have been done just for one small cavity that could've been filled. we are sueing and i know it will make other parents see that kool smiles is worthless. thank you again and take care.

[nonya]

Well. I hope every last one is closed down and that your collections department goes to jail every one of you lying, greedy, cheating selves!!!!
I had an emergency between jobs and took my 18 month old son. They traumatized him, refused to allow me in the room with him, refused to bring him back to me until they were done- all this AFTER THEY MADE ME PAY IN FULL UP FRONT!! and then had the friggin nerve to send me an additional bill and say I owe them money!!! I barley missed a call from them, less than 5 minutes, not near an hour or hal-hour, but at 3:42 pm. Guess what???!! when I called right back. they were friggin CLOSED! Go to HELL all of you@

[knightrider]

are you sure wrote:

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Get your facts straight, this is not entirely true...do your research before you spout lies

I Dont' know who you are but in Georgia all of the Clinics are being monitored.This is after many complaints from past patients and past and present employees of K.S.Why do I know this ?. The office I work in receives pictures and letters all the time, we then pull the billing for the patient and send them to other dental offices to be examined per KS's work.I really know what is going on at KS.... I was one of the employees that got booted and Dr. Meadows felt sorry for me and hired me to work for their projects.S-O you know I knew everything.

[Need2Know]

knightrider wrote:

<quoted text>I Dont' know who you are but in Georgia all of the Clinics are being monitored.This is after many complaints from past patients and past and present employees of K.S.Why do I know this ?. The office I work in receives pictures and letters all the time, we then pull the billing for the patient and send them to other dental offices to be examined per KS's work.I really know what is going on at KS.... I was one of the employees that got booted and Dr. Meadows felt sorry for me and hired me to work for their projects.S-O you know I knew everything.

Tell us more. Future employment plans depend on it. We are there for the right reasons-the children, however we are looking for full disclosure of info that would make us reconsider our position as a united front. We look at ourselves in the mirror every day and are happy w/what we see. We will not go down with an unreputable sinking ship-if that is truly the case.

[I GOT U ON FILM]

ex doc wrote:

I was a doc with Kool Smiles. They will go down. Dr. Tu Tran is a fake!! He should be ashamed of himself for lying to the docs and to himself. His sister in law works for small smiles. They are all linked together. Small Smiles had to pay 10million dollars to the feds to avoid criminal charges. People, you can make a difference. They are both under federal investigation. Just keep reporting it. They don't care about the kids. Dr. Strange threatens the children with needles, and fusses at the docs for not making enough production. The office managers and CTL's get bonuses from day one off doctor's production and number of patients seen. That's why the office managers act so crazy and pack the schedule!! They get money off of the work of the docs. The assitants don't get bonuses and the docs have to work several months before being eligible for bonuses. Your offices are a joke and organized dentistry is teaming with the feds to get you closed down

Whomever you are you are correct in some of the statements that you made. The Clinic in Dekalb Georgia has gotten so bad that they are allowing D.A. to do cleanings and one in particular is doing dental extractions when they are short-handed. If anyone would like to see the proof I am in diccussions now with certain officials to see if we can put these pics on U-Tube? or hold them for Federal proof.All I can say to the D.A. at Dekalb Clinic is thank you for all the wrong you have done to these children from our Day Care Centers. You have really tramatized them. Now they are going to a great dental service and slowly trusting their new dentist. I can say even now you take our Ins. other than Medicaid you ways are horrible. People keep watching U-Tube in case they allow us to put the Pics on it.

[Brightness]

Apelanta wrote:

Worthless welfare negroes, you don't deserve a dime. Get the hell back to Apefrica.

I only am going to reply to this ignorant statement as apparently you are a person seeking attention from someone.I changed my mind I shall not call you ignorant I shall defind you as a person lacking basic english,grammer and american history skills.I see that you need to check your dictionary for spelling and meanings of your words.What is a welfare negro? There are many great sucessful Afro-American people whom have placed their mark in our society.I feel that in some walk of your live something you touch,eat or do has a mark of a great Afro-American person.Do you go to the ballgame? Eating Peanuts? You are eating what a great Afro-American discoverd.I could spend all day listing things, but before you label someone worthless it is not because of a persons race..........It is whom the person is themselves. I hope that you don't have any children especially teenagers? Do you listen to the music they listen to? Again Afro-American paved the way. Also who do you think Elvis Presley
marked himself after? Many great Afro-American men.By the way the word is spelled Africa and all Afro-Americans did not come from there.There are many races of people whom makeup Africa.

[Jasmine]

If you like Rob Aarnes that much you should see what has happened to Barbeques Galore in a short 12 months while he was VP of retail...Google Barbeques Galore and find out more...

Rob Aarnes Quit wrote:

Yippeeee! Now when are the rest of his "retail cronies" going to quit? Or are we going to set up cash registers and sell groceries up front? Maybe we could cash checks, sell cigarettes and comics too?
We are getting such a great reputation on these boards. Nothing warms an employees heart like reading such favorable gossip and negativity!
Viva la dollar!

[Josh]

Who in the heck is still stuck on this guy? He's BEEN history. New management exists under the growth of KS. Nothing even closely resembles the timespan he was here.

[Jasmine]

Actually, that would be me that is still stuck on this guy...had to work for him at BBQ Galore...he just resigned last week...thank GOD...!

Josh wrote:

Who in the heck is still stuck on this guy? He's BEEN history. New management exists under the growth of KS. Nothing even closely resembles the timespan he was here.

[DASH]

When's the next DASH meeting? I bet only 2 people show up.

[ttj]

How can you complain about free health care? What does Obama have to do with it.