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Withholding Dental Care Violates Eighth Amendment
ANew York federal district court held that failure to treat a prisoner's abscessed wisdom tooth was a sufficiently serious medical condition to sustain an Eighth Amendment claim. The court also held that material issues of fact as to whether the prison's health services director was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's ...
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