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.
98
published erasure determinations analysed
98
matched at least one specific reason category
12 March 2018
earliest decision date in this view
24 June 2026
latest decision date in this view
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Categorised reasons in published erasure decisions
Records
94 of 98
95.9%
Clinical care
7 of 98
7.1%
Patient safety
5 of 98
5.1%
Criminal conviction
4 of 98
4.1%
Dishonesty
3 of 98
3.1%
Consent and dignity
3 of 98
3.1%
Workplace conduct
3 of 98
3.1%
Health and substance
3 of 98
3.1%
Medicines and drugs
1 of 98
1%
Category table
| Category | Count | Share | What this includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Records, paperwork, and administration | 94 | 95.9% | Findings involving record keeping, notes, paperwork, documentation, or administrative compliance. |
| Clinical care and competence | 7 | 7.1% | Findings involving clinical care, treatment, diagnosis, competence, performance, or professional skill. |
| Patient safety and safeguarding | 5 | 5.1% | Findings involving patient safety, safeguarding, vulnerable people, child protection, or risk of harm. |
| Criminal conviction or caution | 4 | 4.1% | Findings where the published determination refers to a criminal conviction, caution, court sentence, or criminal offence. |
| Dishonesty and false records | 3 | 3.1% | Findings involving dishonesty, fraud, forged documents, false statements, or misleading records. |
| Communication, consent, and dignity | 3 | 3.1% | Findings involving consent, communication, dignity, confidentiality, or patient information. |
| Workplace conduct and colleagues | 3 | 3.1% | Findings involving colleagues, workplace behaviour, bullying, harassment, or employer-related conduct. |
| Health, alcohol, or substance concerns | 3 | 3.1% | Findings involving health concerns, alcohol, substance misuse, or health-related impairment. |
| Medicines, prescribing, and drugs | 1 | 1% | Findings involving prescribing, medicines management, controlled drugs, medication errors, or drug misuse. |
Example source-backed determinations
Records, paperwork, and administration
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
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.
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.
Clinical care and competence
24 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Kacper Jakub Latos should be erased from the dental register. On 24 June 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, ruling that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, failed to obtain informed consent, permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and did not cooperate with the GDC. The committee ordered erasure and imposed an immediate suspension covering the appeal period.
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
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.
13 May 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse and orthodontic therapist Harpreet Kaur Kundola should be erased from the register. The Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by her 2024 conviction at Leeds Crown Court for conspiring to pervert the course of public justice, for which she received a suspended prison sentence. The panel said her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and suspended her registration immediately pending the appeal period.
Patient safety and safeguarding
24 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Kacper Jakub Latos should be erased from the dental register. On 24 June 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, ruling that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, failed to obtain informed consent, permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and did not cooperate with the GDC. The committee ordered erasure and imposed an immediate suspension covering the appeal period.
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
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.
2 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Salama Begum should be erased from the register, with an immediate suspension order. The Professional Conduct Committee found she offered and provided tooth whitening services outside a dental nurse's scope of practice and without indemnity cover, putting patient safety at risk, and that she acted dishonestly by denying the work to her employer and falsely telling the GDC it had approved the service.
Criminal conviction or caution
13 May 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse and orthodontic therapist Harpreet Kaur Kundola should be erased from the register. The Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by her 2024 conviction at Leeds Crown Court for conspiring to pervert the course of public justice, for which she received a suspended prison sentence. The panel said her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and suspended her registration immediately pending the appeal period.
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.
Dishonesty and false records
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
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.
2 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Salama Begum should be erased from the register, with an immediate suspension order. The Professional Conduct Committee found she offered and provided tooth whitening services outside a dental nurse's scope of practice and without indemnity cover, putting patient safety at risk, and that she acted dishonestly by denying the work to her employer and falsely telling the GDC it had approved the service.
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.
Communication, consent, and dignity
24 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Kacper Jakub Latos should be erased from the dental register. On 24 June 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, ruling that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, failed to obtain informed consent, permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and did not cooperate with the GDC. The committee ordered erasure and imposed an immediate suspension covering the appeal period.
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
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.
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.
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 98 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.