Bean, 60, was arrested on April 24 and charged with practicing dentistry without a license. Sheriff's investigators say he was making dentures in the garage behind his mobile home west of West Palm Beach. From the garage deputies seized at least five dentures that he was working on.
Their dentures are being held in evidence by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office pending Bean's trial.
"I want my teeth back," said Kurt Niven, 84, a retired art dealer who lives in Delray Beach. I only have two teeth in the front here."
"I can't eat. I can't go to a restaurant and chew a steak," he said. "They shouldn't keep things that are essential for daily life. They should return it to the people who need it."
Now Springs dentist Craig Meskin wants to give teeth back to the toothless.
He has said he will repair, for free, the wrong allegedly done to the handful of individuals who were left without their dentures.
Meskin made his offer after reading about Kurt Niven. "It's very nice of him to go forward and do this," Niven said. "I'm very happy about it."
Still, the retired art dealer wants his own teeth back.
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