Daly City, Calif.-based Campus Heights Dental Care dentist Amishi Patel, DDS, pled no contest and was sentenced to 20 months in jail for performing unnecessary dental work on eight patients.
Orillia, Canada-based dentist Joe Phillips, DDS, filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit to reject allegations he used improperly sterilized instruments.
Virginia dentist Maryam Zarei, DDS, faces 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud last year.
North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation and local dentist Kirk Turner, DDS, settled a lawsuit where Dr. Turner claimed two SBI agents framed him for the murder of his wife.
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