Suspected of causing a dental hygienist to perform medical treatment
Directors of clinics in Nagoya City were arrested for letting a dental hygienist without a dentist's license carry out medical treatment. The police are investigating that the director, who had repeatedly traveled abroad, was carrying out medical practice during his absence, and the director denied some of the charges.
Two people were arrested, Kensuke Matsumoto (78), the director of the dental clinic in Omatsumachi, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, and a 50-year-old dental hygienist.
According to the police, Director Matsumoto et al., From September to January, said that the dental hygienist without a dentist's license was given to two patients for medical treatment such as shaving their teeth. There is a suspicion of violating the Doctoral Law.
Although no health damage has been confirmed so far, Director Matsumoto also operates a company that grows and sells coffee overseas, and has repeatedly traveled to New Caledonia, where the farm is located.
In July, the police were investigating that they had been working as a dental hygienist when the director was absent because they traveled abroad without notification and received guidance from the public health center.
Two people have denied some charges against police investigation.
A man in his 80s who had been treated at this dental clinic said, “I think there were many foreign patients who could speak a foreign language. I was surprised because the personality was good. ”, And recently, there were things that I did n’t really know what I was doing.”
A man in his 70s living near a dental clinic said, `` There are few neighborhoods, even if I returned from abroad, the clinic was not operating, there was a sign, but I did not know well what I was doing. '' It was.
Another man in his 70s said, “The director was studying alveolar leakage at an overseas university and said that he had authority in the field of implants. Recently, it seems that an assistant woman was treating and teaching behind her, regardless of direct treatment. "