A federal prison dentist from Tallahassee is behind bars for having sexual contact with an inmate. Godfrey Onugha was sentenced Thursday to five months in jail, five months of house arrest and a $3,000 dollar fine for sexually abusing an inmate within a federal prison. The 50-year-old pled guilty on May 27th 2010 to engaging [...]

A dentist based in Dalton, Rotherham, faces being struck off after an inspection uncovered poor infection control practise and the reuse of single-use equipment, including syringes, files and impression trays. Mohammed Siddiqui was immediately suspended from the NHS Rotherham dental performers list after former staff raised issues about his infection control standards in 2009, prompting [...]

A man has been charged with practicing dentistry without a license at an office along Oakland’s bustling Grand Avenue, prosecutors said. Mario Alfredo Pacheco pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland to practicing dentistry without a license, creating a risk of harm, inflicting great bodily injury and unlawfully administering an [...]

One-third of doctors who knew of peers who were incompetent or impaired, such as from alcohol or drug use, said they did not turn them in, according to a new survey. “I was expecting the number who said they reported to be higher,” says researcher Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, assistant professor of medicine at the [...]