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abc News reported on the experience of a ZocDoc patient and his dentist

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Its not always easy to find a dentist or doctor, who can give you an appointment exactly when you need it. Well, now you can turn to the web for help. A new website is making that search faster and easier. You can even book an appointment online- soon well wont even ever have to talk to people.

A few months ago Benjamin Teper had a bad tooth ache and needed to find a dentist and that made him nervous.

Teper: I saw a dentist in Florida three years ago and he didnt do great work and since then I had pain and it went well and then I had a pain again.

But now, Benjamin is a regular patient of Wall Street dentist Lina Frost who can be found on ZocDoc.com. The website is free, users can locate a dentist or primary care doctor on their insurance plan, specify the neighborhood, time and date they prefer, then book an appointment online.

Cyrus Massoumi: The works already done. So, it just takes a few seconds to really find out who is available or who is not.

The dot-com was launched last September by Cyrus Massoumi and Oliver Kharraz. It lists dentist and primary care dotors in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and will soon expand to other areas. Patient reviews are included and just as important: ZocDoc does background checks on all medical practitioners who want to join.

Massoumi: Well go through and verify their board qualifications, their education, the fact that their board of license- the license in the state they are practicing in, and all these stuff are credentialed by our team.

Dr. Frost says ZocDoc helps her, too, by giving her practice visibility. She also likes the sites philosophy.

Dr. Frost: ZocDoc is one of the few sites that reviews doctors without any promotional materials, so its a very honest review: I like the doctor, I didnt like the doctor, this was positive, this was negative. And patients really learn more about our office because of ZocDoc.

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