The Washington State Dental Association has learned that several western Washington dentists have received deeply disturbing messages through the U.S. mail encouraging dentists to take their own lives. The safety of dentists and their office staff remain our top priority, and we are taking steps to support dentists and the dental community as law enforcement works to identify the author of these deeply worrisome messages.
Any dentist who has received one of these letters should immediately contact local law enforcement, so that the person or persons behind this threatening behavior can be identified and apprehended.”
— Bracken Killpack, WSDA Executive Director
Several Western Washington dental offices receive threatening letters
Mar 12, 2025, 5:40 AM
A dentist examines a child's teeth. (Photo courtesy of KIRO 7)
(Photo courtesy of KIRO 7)
Several dental offices in the Western Washington area have received threatening letters in the mail.
The messages in those letters are disturbing, but whoever wrote and sent those letters is urging dentists to end their lives. Jennifer, who we are not revealing her last name or the dentist office she helps manage in Redmond, received one of those threatening letters.
“Thank you for all that you do. Every dentist needs to kill themselves. Dentists are lying ******* and scam artists who torture kids,” she read to KIRO 7.
Jennifer said this is something that has never happened in her career.
