DentistGeneral Dental Council 60088
Colin Duncan McLauchlan
Colin Duncan McLauchlan, dentist (General Dental Council 60088). Most recent decision: Erasure (struck off the register) on 5 June 2026 by the Dental Professionals Hearings Service.
Last verified against the General Dental Council register on 30 April 2026.
Current status
Most recent outcome: Erasure (struck off the register), decided 5 June 2026 by the Dental Professionals Hearings Service.
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
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Decisions and hearings
Dental Professionals Hearings Servicesubstantive hearing
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Colin Duncan McLauchlan should be erased from the register with immediate suspension. The Professional Conduct Committee, sitting in his absence, found widespread failings in examinations, radiograph reporting, diagnosis and consent across 39 patients between 2018 and 2023, and found he acted dishonestly towards four patients, including denying he had left a dental bur in a patient's mouth and misattributing his own root canal work to another dentist.
Practitioner details
- Year qualified
- 1985
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