nydailynews.com on January 24, 2012 reported that a disgraced former dentist has pleaded guilty to drilling patients with unsafe materials and illegally extracting hundreds of thousands from Medicaid, authorities said. Michael Clair, of Crofton, Md., pleaded guilty in court to using pieces of paper clip instead of a stainless steel posts in two separate patients needing root canals, the Herald News reported. Clair also pleaded guilty to running a Medicaid scam out of his practice in the New Harbour Mall in Fall River, Mass. and prescribing painkillers to his staff members, the report said.

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