Dentist is practising illegally in Spain after being twice struck off the dentists' register.Rajkumar Rao, 45, is working from a practice in the town of Alhaurin el Grande, situated in Malaga on the south coast of Spain.
The General Dental Council (GDC) has confirmed that Rajkumar Sureshchandra Rao was removed from the UK dentists' register in May 1998.He was previously found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) for offences which included failure to employ a proper degree of skill and attention in providing treatment to patients. He was restored to the UK dentists' register in April 2001, but was erased with immediate suspension again in November 2004 after the PCC found him guilty of seriously deficient clinical work.The GDC said: ‘The Committee took extremely seriously the fact he practised dentistry in the intervening period when he was not a registered dentist. This is illegal.'
However, Rajkumar Rao is offering a ‘world-class smile' and ‘drop dead gorgeous dentures' in local adverts for his clinic, The Alhaurin Dental Centre.A spokesman from the GDC said: ‘The GDC is committed to strengthening patient protection and closely regulates the dental team to ensure they meet our standards which include putting patients' interests first and acting to protect them. When they fail to meet our standards, as Mr Rao did repeatedly, we take proportionate action to protect the public. ‘We alerted the equivalent of the General Dental Council in Spain of this information as a matter of routine.'
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