Failure to complete ordered remediation justified discipline, monitoring, counselling, and costs.
A discipline panel found a dentist guilty of professional misconduct after he admitted failing to complete a specified continuing education or remediation program ordered by the complaints committee and failing to respond appropriately to repeated regulatory communications.
The panel held that the admitted facts established both a failure to reply within a reasonable time to a written enquiry and conduct that would reasonably be regarded by members as unprofessional.
Accepting a joint submission on penalty and costs, the panel imposed a reprimand, 24 months of practice monitoring, counselling at the member's expense, and costs.
The panel emphasized public protection, deterrence, rehabilitation, and the importance of compliance with regulator-ordered remediation.
