Dentures inside closed office

She paid a dentist s office for dentures and then went to get them but the owners had been arrested leaving her with no dentures and a big credit card bill Does she have to pay it It is tonight s Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser Very scant things are better than a wonderful family Priscilla Huntley And I do appreciate her because she s good to me She s very good to me Priscilla adores her granddaughter and Kristie loves her grandmother Kristie Mion She s helped me so a multitude of times throughout my life and I want to do whatever I can to help her out of this mess And it is a very complicated painful mess Priscilla Huntley It s very uncomfortable because I can t eat anything Everything I eat has got to be very soft food Priscilla had gone to a Pembroke Pines dental office to get posts installed and new dentures They got half right Priscilla Huntley And the tops fit the bottoms didn t fit from the very very beginning Priscilla had paid to replace these faulty bottom dentures The dentist s office opened a credit card in Priscilla s name Priscilla Huntley They just kept trying to make them over and over again and I ve been doing this for over a year now The bill for the work kept increasing The credit card charges now total Priscilla Huntley They never give me an itemized bill They just kept charging my credit card every time I d go in Then the office called to tell her the new bottom dentures were ready Priscilla went there Priscilla Huntley And they were closed down already ao I never got to see them anymore Closed and the doors locked because the owners were arrested and charged with insurance fraud for allegedly racking up fees for work not performed leaving Priscilla without her new bottom dentures and a big credit card bill Kristie Mion The credit card company is saying that she necessities to start making payments this month Priscilla Huntley I don t think it s a fair price I think they overcharged me first off Without her new dentures Priscilla sometimes uses the old faulty dentures that she had to pay the dentist s office for Priscilla Huntley And they rub and they hurt like crazy so they don t fit me right Howard we stated it was a mess So legally how can Priscilla get her bottom dentures and her diagnostic records Howard Finkelstein Clearly Priscilla is entitled to her dentures and records But complicating this the arrests of the owners of the dental office making it a criminal study The prosecutor may be able to give Priscilla what she wants promptly but legally can refuse until the study is over which could be a year or two It s really terrible for Priscilla and others I contacted the state agency that oversees dentists They didn t help at all I emailed the prosecutor s office and got nowhere The property manager of the locked dentist s office reported me they could not unlock the door for Priscilla because the tenant was still paying rent but a new dentist was hoping to take over and that might give Priscilla access to her records and dentures Then we got a nice break I contacted the attorneys for Evelyn Cruz who s charged in the development Jason Weiss wrote Ms Cruz will be able to provide Ms Huntley with her dentures If you can get me the name and address of the new provider I will make sure that it is shipped Good news for Priscilla Priscilla Huntley I am going to be so happy if I can get my dentures back It took a scarce weeks but Priscilla s call to Help Me Howard is paying off Priscilla Huntley And I want to thank Patrick Fraser for doing all he has done to help me get my dentures back from the dentist s office that closed down And we ll be so happy for you when you get those dentures Priscilla Now does Priscilla have to pay that large credit card bill If the bill is legit yes but maybe not because the dentist s office was accused of operating illegally I contacted the credit card company s representatives and they noted they are going to look into it for Priscilla Got a trouble you want us to sink our teeth into Let us brush on the law and then we ll fight tooth and nail for you With this Help Me Howard I m Patrick Fraser News CONTACT HELP ME HOWARD Email helpmehoward wsvn comReporter Patrick Fraser at pfraser wsvn comMiami-Dade - -WSVNBroward - -WSVN