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India's 'backstreet dentists': Lifeline or hidden risk?

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Danish Pandit in New Delhi
March 8, 2025

On a busy roadside, Kishore Lal has been treating patients for over three decades. He offers extractions, fillings and dentures at cut-rate prices. The question remains, however, whether unlicensed dentists, who operate in legal gray areas, provide a necessary service or put patients in jeopardy.