Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BOARD OF DENTISTRY
Respondent: JEFFREY BAKER, D.M.D.
Judges: WILLIAM F. QUATTLEBAUM
Agency: Department of Health
Locations: Orlando, Florida
Filed: Sep. 07, 2006
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Wednesday, October 18, 2006.
Latest Update: Dec. 24, 2024
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
PETITIONER,
Vv. CASE NO. 2003-22625
JEFFREY BAKER, D.M.D.,
RESPONDENT. ;
ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
COMES NOW, Petitioner, Department of Health, by and through its —
undersigned counsel, and files this Administrative Complaint before the
Board of Dentistry against the Respondent, Jeffrey Baker, D.M.D., and in
support thereof alleges: ,
1. Petitioner is the state department charged with regulating the
practice of Dentistry pursuant to Section 20.43, Florida Statutes; Chapter
456, Florida Statutes; and Chapter 466, Florida Statutes.
2. At all times material to this Complaint, Respondent was a
licensed dentist within the State of Florida and was issued license number
* DN 10245.
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3. Respondent's address of record is 1626 South Conway Road,
Orlando, Florida 32812.
4. Respondent provided dental care to Patient A.K. from on or
about August 24, 2001, until on or about August 5, 2003.
5. Onor about July 29, 2003, the Respondent's treatment records
for Patient A.K. indicate a prophylaxis, examination, and two bitewing
radiographs. The unsigned entry on that date was apparently made by an
auxiliary presumably a dental hygienist. The bitewing radiographs taken on
July 29, 2003, included the majority of the crown of tooth number 27,
which exhibited a pre-existing composite restoration that appears to be on
the labial surface of the tooth and a large radiolucency involving the distal .
lingual surfaces that would represent either a carious lesion or a missing »
restoration.
6. On or about August 5, 2003, Patient A.K. presented to the ©
Respondent for dental treatment. The dental record for Patient A.K. was
unsigned by the Respondent on August 5, 2003. The dental record of -
Patient A.K. for August 5, 2003, states 1 carpule 2% lidocaine with
1:100,000 epinephrine was injected followed by an amalgam restoration
placed in the lingual surface of tooth number 27. During this same dental
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treatment by the Respondent a copalite cavity varnish was placed in the
cavity preparation but no liner or base was placed prior to condensing the
amalgam.