Mary Lynne Desmond thought she had found the perfect dentist. Philip Feldman, a graduate of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, had an engaging manner and seemed meticulous. Soon Desmond, a fourth-grade teacher who lives in Coram, N.Y., and her two children, husband, sister and brother-in-law all became Feldman's patients. "But in the last five or six years, he changed," Desmond recalls. "He did three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry about. Last week state health...
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