For a surgeon who needed 18 teeth pulled , Daniel Smith was a chipper . Anxious , too , for he was facing a pair of forceps . But ##ton , meanwhile , a contractor with no insurance or dental insurance , who had n’t seen a surgeon in more than 20 years , was looking forward to an imminent end to the bleeding and rot in his mouth .
For a man who needed 18 teeth pulled, Daniel Smith was looking chipper. Anxious, too, for he was facing a pair of forceps. But Smith, 30, a contractor with no health or dental insurance, who hadn’t seen a dentist in more than 20 years, was looking forward to an imminent end to the pain and rot in his mouth.