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[Judge]

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LONDON (Reuters) - A dentist has been banned from working after allowing her unqualified boyfriend to carry out dental work on patients in her surgery, the profession's regulatory body said on Tuesday.


Mojgan Azari was found guilty of serious professional misconduct for letting boyfriend Omid Amidi-Mazaheri work at her practices in south London between 2002 and 2003, the General Dental Council (GDC) said.


The boyfriend worked on more than 600 people, drilling out cavities without local anaesthetic and installing expensive fillings that crumbled within days, often leaving patients in agony, the BBC said.

The GDC said Azari had allowed him to carry on working in her surgeries for seven months after she had been warned that he was unregistered.


"The direct result of your actions was that a recall exercise involving several hundred patients had to be mounted, to establish whether they required further dental remedial action," the GDC said in its ruling.


"This caused the patients considerable distress and inconvenience, and cost the National Health Service (NHS) approximately 180,000 pounds."


The GDC said Azari had pleaded guilty in February 2005 to four counts of obtaining money by deception from the NHS in relation to the case and had been jailed for 12 months.


The BBC said Amidi-Mazaheri, an Iranian national, had received a two-year sentence for similar offences.


Consequently the GDC said its conduct committee had decided to strike Azari's name from the register.


"In view of the gravity of the offences and their effect in undermining public confidence and the damage to the reputation of the profession, the committee is satisfied that the only appropriate sanction in this case is erasure," it said.

[drummerphil]

obviously though their must be a "filling" for a new dentists there.

[andy_g]

said with real wisdom, phil

[Woollyback]

here we go again

[Judge]

omg, pun city

[The Red Baron]

Having taken this action, the GDC have shown they are not just another toothless
organisation.

[112-1077774096]

quick get them in the occupation thread   

[andy_g]

glad to see the GDC got straight to the root of the problem

[woof woof !]

I'm always wary of doctors and dentists who allegedly got their training in such far flung places as the Peoples Democratic Republic of Umbongo or Konmanistan as medical degrees in such places are bought and sold every day to people who's only medical knowledge is based on the slaughtering a goat at a family feast.

I went to a new dentist two years ago who apparently came from one of the third world centres of medical excellence ,the attending nurse had to give him "tips" on what to do next .The two filling he gave me lasted less than six months before they started to collapse and I had to return to my old dentist to get them sorted out .

[Woollyback]

this whole issue has really hit a nerve and set the public's teeth on edge, we need to halt the decay in public dental provision asap

[El Nino_#9]

this thread is into decay already!

[drummerphil]

this whole issue has really hit a nerve and set the public's teeth on edge, we need to halt the decay in public dental provision asap

i agree it really gives the dental association something to really chew on.......

[Woollyback]

perhaps we should demosnstrate outside the gdc's office with a big plaque

[Judge]

perhaps we should demosnstrate outside the gdc's office with a big plaque

i think its an institute in decay

[El Nino_#9]

Be kind to your dentist because he has fillings too