Dentist Found Guilty of Injury Still Registered

Posted: July 26, 2012 / Source: http://www.smh.com

A dentist who carried out nearly $75,000 worth of dental work on a patient - despite knowing it was unnecessary and would be ineffective - is still able to practise despite the NSW Supreme Court yesterday ordering him to pay more than $1.7 million in damages for intentional injury.

Mark Phung, whose practice is in the south-west suburb of Beverly Hills, saw patient Todd Dean 53 times in one year after Mr Dean was struck on the chin by a piece of wood in a workplace accident in 2001.

Though the court found Mr Dean suffered only ''limited damage to a small number of otherwise healthy teeth'' after his accident, Phung fitted all his teeth with metal crowns, performed numerous root canals and inserted bridging.


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