Michael Clair was a well known dentist in Crofton, Maryland. He was well known and well respected. This was until he used paper clips during a root canal instead of the metal posts used to hold the structure of the tooth together. He decided to use the paper clips because it was less expensive then purchasing the metal posts. He didn't even consider the infections that the paper clips could cause. Michael had admitted to using the paper clips two times including the one that had come forth with the evidence. He had also committed many other crimes. This includes falsely billing medicaid for $130,000 between a period of two years. And he was also falsely prescribing multiple drugs to staff workers so that they could file the medicaid for him. He is currently being charged with two accounts of assault and battery, five accounts of Medicaid fraud, three accounts of larceny, three accounts of illegally prescribing controlled substances, one account of tampering with evidence and one account of witness intimidation. The court was first alerted of his whereabouts in 2005 but paid bail to release those charges in 2008. He is now a free man waiting for the final charges and his dentistry license had been revoked in three different states. If found guilty he could 5 years in prison for the medicaid fraud and ten years for illegally prescribing drugs. 
Paper clips? That sounds so painful!!
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