Earlier this year on 14 May 2018, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) charged a New South Wales man, Mr Majid Rahebi, with 44 counts of “falsely representing that he was a registered dentist” and 31 counts of “performing a restricted dental act”.
Mr Rahebi had operated the dental practice MJ Dental Care Pty Ltd in Guilford West New South Wales, despite having never been registered as an Australian dentist and having never held any other formal dental qualifications. He was also found to have carried out dental treatment on patients and administering unauthorised prescription medicines.
The Local Court of New South Wales has now convicted and fined Mr Rahebi for these unauthorised and restricted practices, with the fines amounting to $11,250 for falsely representing that he was a registered dentist and $18,750 for his performance of restricted dental acts. He was also ordered to pay costs of approximately $19,950.
The Dental Board of Australia have commented that this outcome, together with other recent similar outcomes, have shown that “regulators take seriously anyone falsely claiming to be dentists”.
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