New California Dental Law – AB 171

New dental law in California, AB 171, will protect consumers (especially low-income consumers) from predatory marketing of 3rd-party dental credit and loans (Capital One Healthcare Finance, Chase HealthAdvance, and Citi Health Card).

The dentist must first providing the patient a list of the treatment and services to be rendered, the estimated costs of the treatment and services, and which treatment and services are being charged in advance of rendering or …

Burglars Steal Fillings

Two Costa Mesa residents were arrested Sunday on suspicion of stealing precious metals in a slew of dental laboratory robberies.

Matthew Marchman, 38, and Shawna Lerer, 29, were taken into custody in Anaheim. The pair is believed to be responsible for burglarizing 18 dental laboratories across Orange County since November.

At around 12:50 a.m. Sunday morning, a patrol officer went to check on two dental labs in the area of …