Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — substantive hearing
GDC panel reprimands dentist Nita Gupta over implant care and consent failings
A GDC Professional Conduct Committee has reprimanded dentist Nita Datta Gupta after finding she failed to discuss the full risks of implant treatment, did not obtain informed consent and kept inadequate records, with impairment found on public interest grounds only.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 15 June 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
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Concerning Nita Datta Gupta, dentist (General Dental Council 74195).
Decision date: 15 June 2026 · Hearing started 8 June 2026 and ended 15 June 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Nita Datta Gupta's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and issued her with a reprimand on 15 June 2026. The committee found she failed to provide an adequate standard of care to a patient during implant treatment in 2023, did not obtain informed consent, and kept inadequate records. It found impairment on public interest grounds only, noting her insight, remorse and remedial action, and said the reprimand will appear on the register for 12 months.
Charges
That being registered as a dentist, her fitness to practise was impaired in that she failed to provide an adequate standard of care to Patient A from 1 March 2023 to 24 October 2023, including by not carrying out sufficient treatment planning, exposing Patient A to avoidable ionising radiation, not discussing the full risks and benefits of the proposed treatment, and not using a surgical guide or alternative angulation controls; failed to maintain an adequate standard of record keeping in respect of Patient A's appointments and in relation to radiographs; failed to obtain informed consent for the treatment provided; and failed to act within her duty of candour by not properly informing Patient A that the cause of oral antral communication was due to the incorrect angulation of the dental implant.
Findings
Heads of charge 1(a), 1(b), 1(d), 2 and 3 were found proved by way of admission. The Committee found proved that she did not discuss the full risks and benefits of the Partial Extraction Therapy (PET) with Patient A (1(c)) and failed to obtain informed consent for that treatment (4). The duty of candour allegation (5(a)) was found not proved, the Committee being satisfied her duty of candour was appropriately met. The facts found proved amounted to misconduct. The Committee found her fitness to practise impaired on wider public interest grounds only, concluding the risk of repetition was minimal and no finding was necessary on public protection grounds. It determined to issue a reprimand, which will appear alongside her name on the GDC Register for a period of 12 months.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The events involved a single patient and one course of treatment; there was no financial gain and she provided Patient A with a refund; evidence of good conduct following the incident, which was three years ago; evidence of remorse, insight and apology; she has undertaken significant remedial action.
Aggravating factors
Actual harm was caused to Patient A. The Committee also took into account her fitness to practise history, in that she previously received advice from the GDC's Case Examiners, although no formal findings were made in relation to that matter.
Source
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