For cut-rate dental care, head to Mexico

A good smile can be a pricey proposition in the U.S., where barely half the population has dental insurance and routine procedures can run up four-figure bills. Want a porcelain crown for a damaged tooth? That'll cost $945, on average.

Q&A with: Gary Lindner, DMD

So a geneticist walks into the patients roomand leaves a dentist. Less a humorous story than it is a heartwarming one, it is also a true one for Gary Lindner, dentist and founder of Lindner Dental Associates of Bedford. His initial interests took him into studying genetic deformities of the face and mouth, particularly those in children, until the Harvard graduate came to a cross-road in his ...