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A dentist in Wisconsin has been found guilty of deliberately breaking his patients’ teeth with a drill so he could collect millions of dollars to repair the damage with dental crowns.
The alleged scheme by licensed Grafton dentist Scott Charmoli, 61, appears to have begun in 2015, when the number of crowns he installed abruptly increased. In 2015, Charmoli installed 1,036 crowns, well over the 434 crowns he did in 2014. Amid the royal boom, his income increased by more than a million dollars, going from $1.4 million in 2014 to $2.5 million in 2015, according to court documents.
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