'I have no teeth': Dentist accused of destroying mouths with 'poor' orthodontic work, leading to bone necrosis and other 'significant' problems wants his license back

A Georgia dentist wants his licence backmost aft getting suspended for allegedly obliterating people's mouths with shoddy orthodontic work, including a pistillate who suffered from bony necrosis aft taking retired a $20,000 indebtedness for "poorly placed" implants.

Dr. Justin Scott, of Pure Dental Health successful Atlanta, says it is helium who is the unfortunate aft being "summarily" stripped of his licence via a suspension bid from the Georgia Board of Dentistry, according to a legal petition filed Monday, which was obtained by Law&Crime.

"The bid is unlawful," Scott's lawyer, Matthew S. Coles, writes successful the exigency petition for a impermanent restraining order, preliminary injunction and enactment of the board's suspension.

"The committee knew of each allegation by June 2025, received Dr. Scott's written responses, inspected some signifier locations connected Sept. 10, 2025, observed the cited conditions, and near without immoderate exigency directive," Coles says. "It took nary further enactment for six months. An bureau that inspects, does nothing, past invokes exigency powerfulness six months aboriginal has negated immoderate assertion of contiguous danger."

The allegations against Scott — which halfway astir implant placement, basal resorption and "occlusal findings" — bash not warrant exigency enactment and are simply "disagreements resolved done adjacent reappraisal and mean process, not exigency suspension," the petition says.

"The committee does not allege immoderate adept reviewed Dr. Scott's care, and offers nary adept sentiment that immoderate diligent was endangered," the papers adds, alleging that his suspension has caused "permanent and irreparable" harm.

"Dr. Scott's Buckhead signifier is shuttered, 12 employees look unemployment, and hundreds of patients person mislaid entree to ongoing care," Coles says. "His practice, listed for merchantability astatine $2.1 million, has received lone a $300,000 connection since the suspension — a demolition of $1.8 cardinal successful value."

The Board of Dentistry's bid of suspension accuses Scott of aggregate offenses related to "poor" orthodontic treatments helium carried retired connected aggregate patients. One diligent allegedly received implants from Scott that failed and led to "bone necrosis" astatine 2 antithetic implant sites that were "poorly placed," according to the suspension order.

The patient, identified successful the bid arsenic M.G., had to instrumentality retired a $20,000 indebtedness for the dental services, the committee says. "Patient M.G. received implants from [Scott] which yet failed," according to the suspension order.

Another pistillate identified successful the bid suffered from "significant basal resorption" connected her precocious and little teeth, and she is present "at hazard of losing her beforehand teeth," the committee says.

A 3rd patient, who was seen by a antithetic dentist aft going to Scott, was described arsenic having "all little implants" successful her rima removed. "Patient is implicit closed, decreased VDO owed to makeshift denture, nary occlusal stops, truthful torquing mandibular condylar area," the consequent treating dentist wrote successful a follow-up report, according to the board's suspension order.

A 4th person, who was besides seen by a antithetic dentist aft going to Scott, suffered from "multiple conditions that required correction arsenic a effect of mediocre orthodontic treatment," the committee says.

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An probe and on-site probe of Scott's dental facilities successful Dunwoody and Atlanta recovered "extensive and pervasive failures of sanitary practice, sterilization and corruption control," according to the board.

The failures included "improper" sterilization techniques and storage, with instrumentality packs being recovered opened successful drawers and "improper" seals connected sterilized packages; a nonaccomplishment to support attraction logs; expired supplies — including anesthetic cartridges, medications, and diligent supplies — recovered successful process rooms, the proviso closet, and the refrigerator; "improper" instrumentality storage, including bedewed instrumentality packs connected the antagonistic aft being pulled from a sterilizer; and different issues.

"I person nary teeth, I person nary functional teeth," said Tangie Larkin, 1 of Scott's erstwhile patients, successful an interrogation with section ABC affiliate WSB. "This broadside broke each the mode off," she said.

Patrick Archibald, different alleged erstwhile patient, told the outlet helium "can hardly talk" aft getting enactment done by Scott.

"My bottoms are not done astatine all," helium said. "My friends volition archer you determination are times I conscionable sat determination and cried and cried astatine night. I privation my rima fixed I privation what I paid for. Because 5 years aboriginal each this wealth successful and alternatively of my imagination teeth I person nary teeth."

Neither Scott's lawyers nor the Georgia Board of Dentistry responded to Law&Crime's requests for remark connected Tuesday.