The State Health Department is offering help to victims of “El Dentista,” the illegal dentist who police say was working on patients out of his car. Inside Eliver Kestler’s car, Santa fFe police found pliers, teeth molds and vials of numbing drugs kept in dirty tackle boxes and suitcases. Five victims have filed police reports.

A cup of coffee peps us up to confront the tasks for the day, but when Laura Knowles, 36, manager Shams Moopen Dental Practice sipped hers, it had a strange texture “It felt like someone had spat into it” she told the prosecutors at the Blackfriars Crown Court that was hearing the case of ‘spite [...]

Authorities have arrested a Morris County dentist and charged him with illegally prescribing and dispensing a popular painkilling drug.The state Division of Consumer Affairs along with federal drug authorities say Succasunna dentist Dr. Ronald M. Jupiter wrote prescriptions for Percocet for undercover officers who came to his office on multiple occasions. Jupiter allegedly never conducted [...]

A husband and wife have been arrested and charged for unlawfully practicing dentistry and impersonating a licensed dentist while working on patients at a Columbia business. Columbia Police Department detectives arrested Michael Richardson, 54, and his wife, Lana Richardson, 51, Wednesday after serving a search warrant at Amazing Smiles, 1802 Carmack Blvd. “While in the [...]

The family of a 21-year-old claims their loved one spent the last two days in the hospital. Christopher Crist has been fighting an infection allegedly at the hands of an Indy dentist. That dentist still refuses to tell his side of the story. Crist doesn’t have any teeth now. “They pulled every last one of [...]

The Tulsa oral surgeon at the center of a public health scare involving thousands of his patients is expected to talk with state Dentistry Board executives by the end of the week, board officials said Thursday. Board Executive Director Susan Rogers said she expects to talk with Dr. W. Scott Harrington and his attorney by [...]

A dentist who faked treatment claims including some for people who had died has been jailed. Edmund Jaques, of Kennett Place, Kentford, netted £78,658 after submitting 1700 bogus claims to the NHS. Ipswich Crown Court heard today how Jaques, 65, specialised in treating elderly residents of care homes in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex. He pleaded [...]

The prescription practices of the local dentist who has been temporarily prohibited from prescribing painkillers were described as an “imminent threat” to health and safety by the regulatory board that took the action. The New Hampshire Board of Dental Examiners issued an emergency order Friday that suspends the privilege of Dr. Robert Christ to prescribe [...]

A US federal judge has ordered tobacco firms to pay for an advertising campaign to explain the dangers of smoking. The judge has also instructed the adverts to include an admission that the companies lied about the harm that smoking can cause.

The state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General wants dentists to know toothless patients do not need fillings.That office announced some dentists inappropriately charged the state’s Medicaid program millions of dollars for doing fillings, root canals and other restorative work on people who have no teeth. Medicaid covers the cost of health care for the [...]