Posted on 04/16/2015 11:13:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 45-year-old dental office manager has been arrested for allegedly performing procedures on unsuspecting, uninsured patients for a cash discount while the dentist was away, and purposely scheduling procedures for them when she knew the doctor would be out of the office.
Authorities said Valbona Yzeiraj, of White Plains, was arrested Thursday following a grand jury indictment earlier this month. The Albanian-born woman pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, unauthorized practice of a profession and reckless endangerment at her arraignment later in the day.
Prosecutors allege the woman acted as a dentist at Ultimate Dental Care of Riverdale in the Bronx, one of three offices within the practice, while the licensed dentist was on vacation or out of the office and offered patients procedures at a discount for cash payments. Yzeiraj was employed as an office manager at the facility; she is not licensed to practice dentistry in the state of New York.
Authorities allege Yzeiraj performed complex procedures, including root canals, on patients. She also pulled teeth. The alleged fraud came to light when at least four patients complained about complications they suffered after being treated by her, officials say.
Yzeiraj was fired from Ultimate Dental Care when the company found out she had been posing as a dentist from late 2012 to summer 2013, prosecutors said.
She is also accused of stealing $20,000 from her employer.
Neither the company nor Yzeiraj's attorney have returned messages seeking comment on her arrest.
Did he gum up the work?
Might be a gap in his training.
Dentists protect their monopoly pretty vigorously.
Article doesn’t say if she was a schooled dentist, say trained in Albania or elsewhere, but didn’t have a NY license. Endodontic procedures do require some training and experience to do well. The administration of local anesthesia also requires knowledge and training to do effectively. As for extractions, I could literally train anyone to do simple ones.
They don’t like people filling in at filling in.
The lawyer just needs to use the undocumented defense.
Special today: Root canal only three goats. Is Good?
That reminds me of a certain Three Stooges film.
IIRC, the Stooges were window washers in a dentist’s office, and a guy walked in with a toothache...
Larry to Moe: “You stripped his gears!”
This story is no big deal. People have been pretending to be secretaries of state, IRS managers, DHS, HHS and NSA workers, Presidential spokespeople and Secretaries of Defense under Obama for six years.
Guarantee?
The Dr. that replaced my aortic valve gave me a lifetime guarantee.
Why does she need "authorization" to practice a profession? Why not let the market decide whether she's a competent dentist? Does anyone really believe a piece of paper guarantees that the practitioner will be good at what he does?
If they do a movie about this, the bronx office sales will be great!
One more reason that I’ve become very anti-dentite.
Next you’ll tell me people are pretending to be marine biologists.
The office I manage under contract offers limited guarantees on work we do. . . ten years on implants. Our primary implantology has a 100% survival rate of implants at 10 years. . . assuming the patient is still living. Given the age some of the patients receive implants, that is not a given. Grin.
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