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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / June 2006Fla. Police End Dirty 'Grills' Dentistry
Fla. Police End Dirty 'Grills' Dentistry PALM SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Call it the bling sting. Detectives had been watching the Blue Diamond Jewelry shop for a month after getting reports that its workers were fitting customers with gold teeth caps using filthy equipment. Some clients had no problems with their shiny new ''grills.'' Others were not so fortunate and suffered severe infections. The amateur, unlicensed dentists cast the grills using filthy tools stored in a cluttered back room amid trash and debris and even adjusted customers' teeth plates with dirty pliers before reinserting them, unwashed, into clients' mouths, authorities said. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detectives put an end to the dirty dentistry and shut down the business Wednesday in an undercover sting. Sarah V. Encarnacion, 39, was arrested just as she was about to place caps inside the mouth of an undercover sheriff's investigator. Encarnacion is charged with unlawful practice of dentistry, proprietorship of non-dentist, and working in an unlawful dental laboratory. ''It's just disgusting,'' said Detective Lori Gunn, who learned of the infected customers about a month ago from the Florida Department of Health. ''It's completely unsanitary.'' No telephone number was listed under Encarnacion's name. How do they know these infections are not from the customers own non maintained periodontally involved teeth vs the tooth jewelery??? These Sheriffs are not dentists, what gives them the right to diagnose that this jewelry is causing the infections??? Unless this person drilled on the teeth or cemented these things in permanently or took tooth impressions of the clients, how does one make a distinction between this and a manufacturer of say BillyBob Halloween teeth. A Jewelery lab has some simillar equipment as a dental lab but that does not make it an illegal dental lab. I've seen Jewelery Labs and Dental Labs and they both have the same amount crap and filthy equipment lying around. The only difference is in a dental lab stuff is disinfected before it goes to the dentist. Some of the materials such as alginate impressions can not be disinfected for very long before being poured or handled due to distortion so as far as lab instruments there is cross contamination even to the technician that has to handle all this stuff with his/her hands. Then again in the early 80's and earlier denists were working in patients mouth with saliva and blood without gloves and were moving from patient to patient with quick hand washes. This sounds like a Witch hunt to me. These Sheriffs know nothing about dentistry or dental labs and have potentially imprisoned somebody that could have been simply told to discontinue or modify their business activity. It does not sound like this person was hiding from anyone by having a registered business. I do not even think regular dentists in this country would even make this type of jewerly since it is purely culturally cosmetic. I know for example in California it is illegal for dentists to do tongue piercings since it is not treating a dental disease even though they are the most qualified to do this type of thing vs a tattoo parlor. > Fla. Police End Dirty 'Grills' Dentistry > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > No telephone number was listed under Encarnacion's name. > How do they know these infections are not from the customers own non > maintained periodontally involved teeth vs the tooth jewelery??? [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] >> >> No telephone number was listed under Encarnacion's name. First of all, why is this posted in alt.true-crime. Second of all, it wasn't the Sheriffs' making the accusations. They were following up on accusations and complaints by others including the Florida Department of Health. They planted undercover detectives to *confirm the accusations* are fact. As they do with any suspected crime. For a dentist you aren't very smart. Chocolic Just look at the charges and the circumstances. If there where complaints why didn't the Fl health department first pay a visit to this Jewery Lab. Why the undercover operation on a business that was not hiding anything. Normally people who are trying to practice dentistry without a licence do this in their own apartments and do not advertise. I do not understand why you are so defensive of the sheriff's department. These false arrests go on every day. A lot of innocent people end up in jail (I'd say about 30% after speaking to someone who was inocent and placed there who talked to the various inmates there. Ofcourse after 3 days to speak to the judge all the judge could do is appologize despite the fact this person spend thousand of dollars on a lawyer and bail and almost died there.), are beaten there by inmates and the guards over something that could have been settled by somebody with common sense. The fact is our inforcement agencies are not trained to think with common sense and inocent people are being put away and held with criminals and gang members which could be avoided in most circumstances. Imagine a sting operation on a restaurant by sending an undercover sheriff, for complaints of a lower Grade for not being very clean, rats, selling alcohol without licence etc... These occur much more often an yet you never hear of such sting operations where the owners end up in jail. The way this first post is posted this sounds like a witch hunt. Otherwise why even post such stupid article which is one sided to say the least. > > How do they know these infections are not from the customers own non > > maintained periodontally involved teeth vs the tooth jewelery??? [quoted text clipped - 88 lines] > > Chocolic Maybe the sheriff did not make the accusations but they certainly made the arrest and compiled the charges without knowing all the facts and similarities between a typical dental lab and a jewerly lab, etc... Do you think a customer would allow somebody to take a dirty "Grill" or jewerly that was say dipped in crap and have it placed in their mouth, or is it more than likely that what is described in the above post as dirty pliers, somebody's perception. If you or the person who did the original post do not like my replies, then why post stupid things an make the general public feel like there was some unlicenced dentistry going on and the sheriff department are the heros, when in fact this case has not even been tried and the person arrested's name is being advertised like this person is a criminal without even having a full trial. Why not simply say such and such a person was arrested for suspicion of practicing dentistry without a licence in a jewery lab? Why all the subjective discriptions about what was dirty or not? And why all the undercover stuff before even attempting a regular inspection. This person was not even given a chance to comply with whatever objections the health department had. Like I said Witch hunt. > > How do they know these infections are not from the customers own non > > maintained periodontally involved teeth vs the tooth jewelery??? [quoted text clipped - 88 lines] > > Chocolic > Unless this person drilled on the teeth or cemented these things in > permanently or took tooth impressions of the clients, That was exactly it, they were taking impressions and that is very clearly illegal; at least in Florida it is. Other than that, like you, I don't see this as a big deal and I would rather that the sheriff take down a drug dealer than bother with this. Any tattoo shop has a bigger chance of causing/spreading an infection. This happened not far from where I live Vaughn It's just that they spent a month watching this place, when I'm pretty sure one visit to tell them to stop could have been adequate. > > Unless this person drilled on the teeth or cemented these things in > > permanently or took tooth impressions of the clients, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Vaughn > The amateur, unlicensed dentists cast the grills using filthy tools > stored in a cluttered back room amid trash and debris and even > adjusted customers' teeth plates with dirty pliers before reinserting > them, unwashed, into clients' mouths, authorities said. Wow! Sounds like the lab that makes our crowns ...... kidding .... -- Joel34 |
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