Dental regulator insights
Why UK dentists are struck off
This analysis groups published dental erasure determinations into broad reason categories using the regulator-described charges, findings, and summaries indexed by MedicWatch. The figures describe MedicWatch's indexed corpus of published regulator determinations, not all healthcare misconduct.
94
published erasure determinations analysed
94
matched at least one specific reason category
12 March 2018
earliest decision date in this view
17 April 2026
latest decision date in this view
Interactive chart
Categorised reasons in published erasure decisions
Records
93 of 94
98.9%
Clinical care
4 of 94
4.3%
Criminal conviction
3 of 94
3.2%
Health and substance
3 of 94
3.2%
Patient safety
2 of 94
2.1%
Dishonesty
1 of 94
1.1%
Medicines and drugs
1 of 94
1.1%
Consent and dignity
1 of 94
1.1%
Workplace conduct
1 of 94
1.1%
Category table
| Category | Count | Share | What this includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Records, paperwork, and administration | 93 | 98.9% | Findings involving record keeping, notes, paperwork, documentation, or administrative compliance. |
| Clinical care and competence | 4 | 4.3% | Findings involving clinical care, treatment, diagnosis, competence, performance, or professional skill. |
| Criminal conviction or caution | 3 | 3.2% | Findings where the published determination refers to a criminal conviction, caution, court sentence, or criminal offence. |
| Health, alcohol, or substance concerns | 3 | 3.2% | Findings involving health concerns, alcohol, substance misuse, or health-related impairment. |
| Patient safety and safeguarding | 2 | 2.1% | Findings involving patient safety, safeguarding, vulnerable people, child protection, or risk of harm. |
| Dishonesty and false records | 1 | 1.1% | Findings involving dishonesty, fraud, forged documents, false statements, or misleading records. |
| Medicines, prescribing, and drugs | 1 | 1.1% | Findings involving prescribing, medicines management, controlled drugs, medication errors, or drug misuse. |
| Communication, consent, and dignity | 1 | 1.1% | Findings involving consent, communication, dignity, confidentiality, or patient information. |
| Workplace conduct and colleagues | 1 | 1.1% | Findings involving colleagues, workplace behaviour, bullying, harassment, or employer-related conduct. |
Example source-backed determinations
Records, paperwork, and administration
17 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Iwanicki's fitness to practise as a dentist is impaired by reason of misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the Dental Register. The Professional Conduct Committee found proved charges relating to inadequate clinical care of two patients, poor record keeping, failure to retain and provide dental records, deletion of clinical photographs, and a sustained failure to co-operate with the GDC. The Committee identified a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem and concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient.
1 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that Miss Owens, a dental nurse, had her fitness to practise found impaired by reason of misconduct and adverse health following a Health Committee hearing held in private. The tribunal directed that her name be erased from the dental care professionals register, with an immediate suspension order pending the appeal period.
6 March 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Katie Louise Shields. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 5 March 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Shields from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Clinical care and competence
17 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Iwanicki's fitness to practise as a dentist is impaired by reason of misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the Dental Register. The Professional Conduct Committee found proved charges relating to inadequate clinical care of two patients, poor record keeping, failure to retain and provide dental records, deletion of clinical photographs, and a sustained failure to co-operate with the GDC. The Committee identified a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem and concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient.
1 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that Miss Owens, a dental nurse, had her fitness to practise found impaired by reason of misconduct and adverse health following a Health Committee hearing held in private. The tribunal directed that her name be erased from the dental care professionals register, with an immediate suspension order pending the appeal period.
18 March 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that Hannah Susan White's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ordered her erasure from the dental care professionals register. The Professional Conduct Committee found that Miss White had submitted whitening tray prescriptions in her own name without proper authorisation, taken cash totalling £668 and teeth whitening gel from her employer without permission, and provided gel to colleagues outside her scope of practice. All charges were found proved. The Committee found no evidence of genuine insight or remorse, and determined that only erasure adequately protected the public.
Criminal conviction or caution
13 December 2024Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Mohsen Mobasseri. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 13 December 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Mobasseri from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. On 10 January 2025 Mr Mobasseri appealed against the decision. On 14th November 2025, the High Court dismissed the registrant’s appeal and upheld the sanction of erasure. This took effect... The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
7 November 2023Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Rahul Gupta. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 7 November 2023 the Professional Committee made an order to erase Mr Gupta from the register and ordered that his registration be suspended immediately. On 04 December 2023 Mr Gupta appealed against the decision. The High Court dismissed Mr Gupta's appeal on 20 November 2024. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
9 December 2021Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Mohamed Amir. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: Following a Professional Standards Authority appeal on the Professional Conduct Committee's decision of suspension on 17 March 2021, Mr Amir's suspension has been substituted to erasure. He will therefore be erased from the Dentists Register. The High Court decision can be found here - https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/3230.html The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health, alcohol, or substance concerns
1 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that Miss Owens, a dental nurse, had her fitness to practise found impaired by reason of misconduct and adverse health following a Health Committee hearing held in private. The tribunal directed that her name be erased from the dental care professionals register, with an immediate suspension order pending the appeal period.
9 January 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC committee published a Health Committee decision for April Maureen Carrington. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 9 January 2026, the Health Committee made an order to erase Ms Carrington from the register and ordered that her registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
12 October 2022Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC committee published a Health Committee decision for Ian John Starkey. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 12 October 2022 the Health Committee made an order to erase Mr Starkey's from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. [within appeal period] The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Patient safety and safeguarding
17 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Iwanicki's fitness to practise as a dentist is impaired by reason of misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the Dental Register. The Professional Conduct Committee found proved charges relating to inadequate clinical care of two patients, poor record keeping, failure to retain and provide dental records, deletion of clinical photographs, and a sustained failure to co-operate with the GDC. The Committee identified a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem and concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient.
25 June 2025Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Ranjna Sharma. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 25 June 2025, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Sharma from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dishonesty and false records
18 March 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that Hannah Susan White's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ordered her erasure from the dental care professionals register. The Professional Conduct Committee found that Miss White had submitted whitening tray prescriptions in her own name without proper authorisation, taken cash totalling £668 and teeth whitening gel from her employer without permission, and provided gel to colleagues outside her scope of practice. All charges were found proved. The Committee found no evidence of genuine insight or remorse, and determined that only erasure adequately protected the public.
Methodology and limits
This page analyses published erasure and voluntary-erasure determinations in the MedicWatch indexed corpus. It does not claim to measure all misconduct in UK healthcare or every regulator decision ever made.
MedicWatch applies a fixed taxonomy to regulator-derived charges, findings, and plain-English summaries. A determination can match more than one category, so category percentages may add up to more than 100%. The denominator for each percentage on this page is 94 published determinations.
Categories describe broad themes in the regulator's published findings. They are not new allegations by MedicWatch. Follow the linked source determinations for the full wording and context.
For citation, describe this as “MedicWatch analysis of its indexed corpus of published UK healthcare regulator erasure determinations”. Do not describe it as a measure of all UK healthcare misconduct.