Important legal precedent set... parents charged with neglecting child's teeth

Hopefully the charges laid against Pennsylvania parents who failed to provide their child with necessary dental treatment will motivate other parents to get their kids to a dentist regularly.

A six-year old girl could have lost her life to her severity of her dental disease, noted a dentist who  had examined the young child. Her parents were supposed to bring their daughter in for a dental appointment that would treat her 14 abscessed teeth, however they never showed up. As a result, the couple faces criminal charges for their neglect.

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