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May 11, 2012 | By Phillip Lucas, Daily News Staff Writer
INSTEAD OF HANDING out toothbrushes and dental floss, a dentist in East Mount Airy was busted dishing out prescriptions for Percocet and Oxycodone — and may have treated patients while he was high on crack cocaine, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General. A monthlong investigation — which began with a tip from a confidential informant — ended Thursday with the arrest of Chandrakant Parekh, 62, who allegedly sold at least 14 prescriptions for Oxycodone and Percocet for between $30 and $40 each from his clinic on Germantown Avenue near Sharpnack Street.
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May 13, 2012 | By PHILLIP LUCAS, Daily News Staff Writer
I NSTEAD OF HANDING out toothbrushes and dental floss, a dentist in East Mount Airy dished out prescriptions for Percocet and Oxycodone and may have treated patients while he was high on crack, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. A monthlong investigation that began with a tip from a confidential informant ended Thursday with the arrest of Chandrakant Parekh, 62, who sold at least 14 prescriptions for Oxycodone and Percocet for between $30 and $40 each from his clinic on Germantown Avenue near Sharpnack Street, authorities said.
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October 28, 1996 | by Joe Clark, Daily News Staff Writer
Every two weeks or so, Doc Young would mosey into town and set up shop in somebody's living room. It was only a matter of time before almost everyone in town would pay him a visit. "Everybody needs to go to the dentist sooner or later," said Floyd E. Baker. He should know. Floyd Edward Baker, DDS, followed in Doc Young's footsteps. Once a year, the 76-year-old Mount Airy dentist returns home to where Doc Young practiced - a small, one-dentist town in Missouri - and rolls up in a mobile home-type van that's been converted into a fully equipped dental office.
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December 10, 1992 | by Kathy Brennan, Daily News Staff Writer
A dentist suing ABC and "20/20" correspondent John Stossel for libel admitted under cross-examination yesterday that most of his patients are referred to him by negligence lawyers and that he finds a jaw problem in 99 percent of these patients. Dr. Owen Rogal, who runs the "Pain Center" on Broad Street near Locust, also testified that he wrote a book, "Mandibular Whiplash," about temporomandibular joint problems (TMJ) sustained in auto accidents. In the book, he advises dentists and lawyers that "every accident has a TMJ component," he testified yesterday.
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October 5, 1993 | By Jim Smith, Daily News Staff Writer
A female dentist and graduate student has sued Temple University in federal court, alleging she has been subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination by a professor at Temple's dental school. The dentist, Anastasia Batsis, is seeking money damages from both the university and the professor, Asterios Doukoudakis. The alleged wrongdoing began in January 1991, when Batsis enrolled in the school's prosthodontics program, which Doukoudakis directs, and included "inappropriate and unwanted sexual touching, comments and other advances," the suit states.
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May 10, 1988 | By Mark Fazlollah, Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau
A Philadephia dentist was sentenced yesterday to one to 23 months in prison and was fined $2,500 for billing the state for dental work for needy patients who never received the care. Dauphin County Judge Clarence C. Morrison ordered Robert G. Soroka, 31, to begin serving his sentence May 23 in Dauphin County Prison and pay $4,998 in restitution. Robert Gentzel, spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said the conviction on three counts of fraud was the result of a plea bargain.
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June 23, 1998 | by Julie Knipe Brown, Daily News Staff Writer
Slain Society Hill dentist Stephen Grosse was drunk at the time of his murder, with tests showing his blood-alcohol level was enough to prevent him from fending off his attacker, authorities said yesterday. Toxicology tests show that Grosse, 44, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15, which is 50 percent above the legal limit of 0.10, said Montgomery County Coroner Halbert Fillinger. Tests are not complete on whether Grosse had any drugs in his system when he died, Fillinger said.
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January 8, 1988 | By GINA BOUBION, Daily News Staff Writer
A Philadelphia dentist has been charged with cheating hundreds of poor people under the state Medicaid program by making them pay extra for anesthesia. Dr. Bernard Rothman, 49, of Delancey Place near 21st Street in Center City, was charged with 524 counts of Medicaid fraud in Harrisburg yesterday. Rothman, an oral surgeon, is accused of requiring his poorest patients to pay $15 to $20 a shot for general anesthesia, then billing Medicaid for the treatment. Each count is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
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December 27, 1990 | By Dan Cornwell, Special to The Inquirer
Root canal. Fillings. Crown reconstruction. For many people, even routine dental operations provoke responses of fear. For dental phobics, the fear is multiplied a thousand times. Brian Moscow, a dental anesthesiologist, believes that dental phobics need not go through life shielding their teeth from the world. He believes the solution, in a word, is anesthesia. "Ninety percent of my patients are people who want to go to the dentist, but don't want to hear a drill and can't handle a needle.
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July 25, 2008 | By Sally A. Downey INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
William H. Phillips, 77, of Wayne, a dentist in Havertown for 37 years, died Tuesday at Paoli Hospital of a stroke. Dr. Phillips, whose father died when he was 5, was educated at Girard College, then a boarding school for fatherless boys. He was grateful for the tuition-free education, his daughter Anne Murphy said, and returned to Girard every year for a reunion with former classmates. He earned a bachelor's degree from Villanova University on a Navy ROTC scholarship and then served in the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier Kula Gulf.