Narayan Prasad, who posed as a registered dentist and treated around 500 patients at his Henderson clinic, has been sentenced to three months’ community detention and ordered to pay nearly $16,000 in reparation.
Patients described “bizarre” and unsafe experiences, including being asked to hold dental equipment during treatment and having fillings fall out.
The court condemned Prasad’s sustained deception, use of an unlicensed X-ray machine, and falsified prescriptions, calling the public health risk and abuse of trust significant.
Victims reported lasting harm and a deep loss of faith in healthcare professionals, while the Ministry of Health said Prasad’s actions were driven by financial gain rather than patient care.
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Being a fake dentist is different to being a fake doctor
When all You have to do is Google
What about ‘fake’ politicians?
BRILLIANT
This must be the tip of the iceberg. Only more visceral, gory and horrific types of currency will replace cash. Three months is incredibly lenient and has no comparison to the punitive fine given to an innocent doctor for prescribing a couple of doses of a Nobel Prize winning antithelminic.
No worse than the dentists we had in the 50s and 60s they drilled our teeth for practice even when you didn’t need any fillings then they poured mercury onto our hands to play with. MOH your a disgrace.
I had a dental nurse at intermediate school who drilled my teeth because she hated me in the ’70s, and at the same time was sent to a dentist who was also busy drilling my teeth.
Later a dentist I went to asked me “who is the butcher who did that?”. The teeth have now been removed and I love my dentures! (They appeal to my warped sense of humour.)
I employed an Indian guy once. He had very impressive qualifications and testimonials.
It didn’t take long to figure out they were all b.s. and that he was costing more than he produced. His production was dismal, but unfortunately the material used to make what was produced was very expensive, and the product needed to be re-done.
He got sacked.
Yes I ended up with some woman who had been working on a reservation in America
I lost a tooth
Pity we weren’t like sharks
Problem solved
And dentists an endangered species
I went to a real dentist in 1996 in Newtown, Wellington. I only went to her because she was near where I worked at the time. After taking xrays etc she rang me at work 2 or 3 days later to say I needed an urgent appointment. Why? Because she alleged I had decay? Which teeth? Most of them. Why didn’t I feel any pain nor discomfort? I don’t need to feel any pain if decay is present. But urgent dental work was needed to fix the problem. I was shocked to hear all this over the phone but was focussed on my work at the time so I told her I’ll think about it and call her back. She said don’t ring her back in 6 months’ time when my teeth start falling out.
So I waited, took good care of my teeth and health. All good. Waited for over 6 months. Still all good. Around a year later I decided to have my teeth checked out again but decided to go to my original dentist – this meant taking a half-day leave and train trip to and fro to a dentist in Porirua. He just nonchalantly checked my teeth, took the xrays etc then waved me off. Didn’t hear from him. I rang him back 2 weeks later to ask if there was any decay – what were the xrays like? Oh they were fine. No decay.
Today, nearly 30 years later – I still have my own teeth. No fillings. No decay that I’m aware of. And I remain blissfully unaware of decay because I don’t bother going to any dentists who just want to make $$ by wrecking my teeth
Went to a fake painless lady-dentist.
She screamed when I bit her.