Dayton Daily News: VA Dental Service Chief Aware Dentist Failed to Sterilize Tools

Posted: February 11, 2011
Dayton Daily News: VA Dental Service Chief Aware Dentist Failed to Sterilize Tools

DAYTON — At least one former supervisor at the Dayton VA Medical Center’s dental clinic took little action after learning a dentist often reused dental equipment on patients without sterilizing it first, according to testimony obtained Wednesday by the Dayton Daily News.
The dentist’s performance had been an issue for years. When told the dentist’s actions likely exposed veterans to blood-borne pathogens, a former dental service chief told investigators the dentist “was not trainable. He wouldn’t take direction. And given the circumstances — that I had not really any avenue to get him out of the service — there wasn’t a lot I felt I could do at the time.”

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