Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — substantive hearing
GDC panel reprimands dental nurse Santa Adomaviciute over out-of-scope anaesthetic work
The GDC's Professional Conduct Committee has reprimanded dental nurse Santa Adomaviciute after she admitted providing dental blocks and local anaesthetic outside her scope of practice. Dishonesty allegations were found not proved and the panel found impairment on public interest grounds alone.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 15 May 2026 · Updated 9 July 2026
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Concerning Santa Adomaviciute, dental nurse (General Dental Council 295751).
Decision date: 15 May 2026 · Hearing started 11 May 2026 and ended 15 May 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Santa Adomaviciute's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct, and issued a reprimand. She admitted offering thread-lifting without Care Quality Commission registration, providing dental blocks and local anaesthetic outside her scope of practice, and misleading advertising. The Professional Conduct Committee found allegations of dishonesty and lack of integrity not proved, found she posed no current risk to the public, and recorded the reprimand for 12 months.
Charges
That she offered or provided thread-lifting treatment without being registered with the Care Quality Commission; offered or provided dental blocks and/or local anaesthetic both before and after registering with the GDC; advertised training courses on dental blocks and/or local anaesthetic; caused or allowed adverts for prescription-only medicines on her business social media in contravention of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and Advertising Standards Agency rules; worked outside her scope of practice, putting patients' safety at risk; used the misleading titles 'Aesthetic Medical Nurse' and 'Aesthetic Dental Nurse'; and failed to comply with a GDC request for her supplier of prescription-only medicines. She admitted charges 1 to 12 and 16; charges alleging dishonesty and lack of integrity were found not proved.
Findings
The Committee found the admitted facts proved and determined that working outside her scope of practice and the advertising concerns amounted to misconduct, in breach of GDC Standards including 1.3.3, 1.9.1, 6.3, 7.2, 7.2.1 and 8.1. It found the dishonesty charges and the lack-of-integrity charge not proved, and did not find that her non-provision of supplier information amounted to misconduct. It concluded her misconduct had been remediated and she posed no current risk to the public, but found her fitness to practise impaired solely on public interest grounds. It directed that a reprimand be recorded against her name, appearing in the Register for 12 months, and revoked the interim order of conditions.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
No previous fitness to practise history; no evidence of further regulatory breaches since the relevant time; evidence of remorse and insight; no evidence of any actual harm to patients.
Aggravating factors
Risk of harm to patients.
Source
All facts on this page are drawn from the publicly published Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination linked below. MedicWatch does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.
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