What's New in Dental News
10 Jun
The Florida Department of Health has suspended the license of Michael Hammonds, DDS, who operates Elkcam Dental in Deltona, after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting an 85-year-old patient, according to a story in theOrlando Sentinel.…
1 Jun
A Deltona, FL dentist, Dr. Michael G. Hammonds, has received felony charges of false imprisonment, battery, and assault on a person older than 65 and grand theft after an altercation with an 85-year-old patient, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.
The incident occurred when Dr. Hammonds was adjusting Virginia Graham’s lower partial denture and she started screaming in pain. She pulled the denture out of her mouth, threw it at …
14 Jun
Las Vegas dentist Mahesh Patel, 45, has agreed to plead guilty of videotaping a female employee and another woman while they undressed in his practice’s in an effort to stay out of jail.
According to a Metro Police report, a female employee at the Advanced Center for Dentistry reported to work on Jan. 11, Patel, requested her assistance with a procedure and asked her to change into her scrubs, the …
3 May
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Thomas McFarland of Wynnwood, PA, received four years of probation and paid the Borough of Avalon $100,000 to compensate for the cleanup costs from the August 2008 dumping of medical waste into southern New Jersey inlet. He previously pleaded guilty in March to unlawful discharge of water pollutants.
A day after the dumping the dental waste it started washing up on the beach at the …
