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Dentist fills cavities, offers massages
Medical spas offer pampering, but often don't take insurance, offering their services to those with disposable cash
Blanca Torres
October 6, 2006
Contra Cost Times
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Ricardo Perez's first brush with business came when he started selling doughnuts in a park at age 10. Years later, while studying dentistry, he decided his practice here would offer more than teeth cleanings and root canals. "I always thought of myself as an entrepreneur," Perez said. "I knew I was going to have a different kind of practice. I didn't want to be ordinary, but I had no idea it would be a spa."
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Is the Spa Doc In?
Doctors benefit as much as the pampered patients at new dental, dermatological and gynecological spas
Katherine Seligman
Sunday, October 23, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle
Excerpt:
There are people who loathe going to the dentist, but Peggy Gill isn't one of them. On a recent visit, she reclined in a chair that could deliver a vibrating massage and listened to classical music in a lavender-scented room, her shoes off, a small dental bib secured around her neck. In the most unusual touch, her hands were encased in what looked like industrial oven mitts.
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