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A Texas dentist's office prepared to give a man a new — and very
expensive — smile, but instead the staff got a call that made
them frown when police revealed the patient was a fraud.

The unidentified man went to Smile Texas in Sugar Land on Nov.
30 for a consultation to receive surgery for new dentures that
cost $45,000, according to KHOU. He used a fake name to schedule
a procedure time and had his loan approved through an online
lending service.

The dentist office even took a photo of the man for their
records during the first consultation.

After ordering molds and labs and paying surgeons for the
operation — tasks that totaled more than $9,800, KHOU reported --
the man didn't show to get his new pearly whites.

When someone with the patient's name finally called back, he
told the dentist's office the patient they were treating was a
different person and had only used his information to open a
line of credit for the procedure. The patient allegedly took out
the $45,000 loan and disappeared.

Police are still looking for the patient, who faces charges of
fraudulent use of identifying information and tampering with a
government document. The dentist office released the single
photo they took during the man's first consultation.

He's described as being in his 40s, about 6 feet 1 inch tall and
weighing 220 pounds.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/09/texas-man-accused-stealing- 45g-for-new-dentures-cops-say.html

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