Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — substantive hearing
GDC panel reprimands dentist Andrew Brown over clinical care and record-keeping failings
The GDC's Professional Conduct Committee has issued a reprimand to dentist Andrew Duncan Roy Brown after he admitted failing to provide an adequate standard of care to patients between 2014 and 2022, finding his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds alone.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 19 May 2026 · Updated 9 July 2026
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Concerning Andrew Duncan Roy Brown, dentist (General Dental Council 68412).
Decision date: 19 May 2026 · Hearing started 12 May 2026 and ended 19 May 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Andrew Duncan Roy Brown's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct, and issued a reprimand. He admitted failing to provide an adequate standard of care to patients between 2014 and 2022, including gaps in examinations, radiographs, consent and record keeping. The Professional Conduct Committee found the risk of repetition was low but said public confidence required a finding of impairment. The reprimand will appear on the register for 12 months.
Charges
That he failed to provide an adequate standard of care from 4 July 2014 to 1 August 2022 for patients, in that he did not conduct any or sufficiently regular Basic Periodontal Examinations; did not undertake six-point pocket charts or record a rationale; did not take any or sufficiently regular bitewing/screening radiographs; did not record adequate radiograph evaluations; did not diagnose or offer treatment for decay and a periapical infection; did not take adequate pre-operative radiographs before crowns, bridge abutments and root canal treatment; did not obtain informed consent for a crown and a bridge; did not use a rubber dam during endodontic treatment; prescribed antibiotics without adequate justification; and failed to maintain an adequate standard of record keeping from 6 June 2016 to 5 May 2022. He admitted all heads of the amended charge.
Findings
The Committee found all heads of the amended charge proved on his admissions and determined that the failings, individually or collectively, amounted to misconduct, including breaches of GDC Standards 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1 and 9.1. It concluded the risk of repetition was low and that he posed no current risk to the public, but found his fitness to practise currently impaired on the ground of the public interest alone, given the seriousness of the findings and his senior leadership position. It directed that a reprimand be recorded against his name, to appear in the GDC register for 12 months, and revoked the interim order of conditions.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The difficult personal and work-related matters at the time of the events in question; the significant steps taken to remediate his conduct since the events; no previous fitness to practise history; full admissions to each of the facts and expressed regret for his conduct; positive and supportive testimonials from professional colleagues; full engagement with the GDC throughout the proceedings.
Aggravating factors
His seniority and leadership role at the Practice; long-term failure of basic fundamental aspects of dentistry, repeated over a period of time; potential risk of harm to patients.
Source
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