One of two state complaints against a Hollywood dentist says he perforated a tooth
A South Florida dentist got the rare double shot of two Florida Department of Health administrative complaints filed against him earlier this month, one of which says he violated the minimum standards of dentistry.
The address on Eric Schuetz’s online Department of Health license entry is that of Sunrise’s Florida Center for Oral Surgery, which says he doesn’t work there. A Google search says he works out of Relax and Smile in North Miami Beach. But the complaints come from patients Schuetz saw at Hollywood’s Affordable Dentistry, where he definitely still works and is featured prominently on the website.
Administrative complaints start the discipline process rolling. Schuetz has been licensed in Florida since Jan. 9, 1998. Schuetz got reprimanded, fined $1,500 and ordered to complete a continuing education course on ethics after a 2019 complaint. That complaint says while Schuetz was part owner of North Miami Beach’s Risa Dental Center, he was aware that his co-owner was practicing dentistry without a license. The co-owner was arrested in 2013 for unlicensed practice of dentistry.
Tooth and records
One administrative complaint says on Jan. 2, 2019, another dentist said patient “B.H.” needed a new bridge because the one from teeth No. 4 through 6 was failing. Schuetz put posts in tooth No. 5 on Jan. 15, 2019, to help build up the tooth’s structure.
The complaint says Schuetz “placed the posts in tooth 5 in a manner that perforated the tooth.”
When B.H. submitted a written request for her records in July 2020, the complaint said, Schuetz’s office didn’t “furnish B.H. with copies of her dental records due” and still hadn’t as of Oct. 27, 2021. The office alleged an unpaid or disputed fee.
The complaint says Schuetz didn’t maintain written dental records of B.H., her medical history forms, signed informed consent forms or records of drugs prescribed or administered to her.
Just the records
The other complaint filed this month says Y.L. came to Affordable Dentistry for a filling on June 25, 2019, and repair to that filling Jan. 15, 2021.
Schuetz, the complaint says, didn’t keep the radiographs or X-rays taken on either occasion, nor did he “maintain patient history or medical records related to Y.L.”
This story was originally published January 31, 2022 at 10:08 AM.
