Edmond Dentist Accused Of Mishandling Prescription Drugs

Those accusations led the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry to file a complaint against the doctor. The board thinks the motive is money.

The complaint said the doctor would use his patients to get sedatives so their insurance would pay for the drugs, and he wouldn't have to buy them from manufacturers. The board believes this has been going on for the last few years.

"Citizens think sometimes, 'well, the doctors can do anything they want with drugs.' That's not the case," said Susan Rogers, the executive director and general counsel for the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry.

The state Board of Dentistry filed a criminal complaint against an Edmond dentist. The complaint spans 16 pages. In the report, the board accused the dentist of over prescribing drugs and telling patients to give pills back to him for the last three years.

"If a doctor ever asks you to come and gives you a prescription and tells you to fill it and bring it back to them and they keep it, you need to call someone," said Rogers.

The complaint said the doctor overprescribed two different sedatives over 150 times: each time giving the patient up to two pills from each bottle and keeping the rest. He's also accused of giving people pills prescribed for someone else, and even selling the sedatives to patients during appointments. 

News 9 is not naming the dentist because no criminal charges have been filed; but the dentistry board's investigation found the doctor violated eight codes of the State Dental Act.

"We end up with multiple people in investigations because when we see something and we go ask questions then we find other issues," Rogers said.

The Dentistry Board's president said the doctor accused could be disciplined, and the consequences span a wide range.

"[It can be a] formal sanction as far as a verbal, or it could be fines, or it could range all the way up to suspension of the license," said Board of Dentistry President Michael Howl.

The dentist will have an official hearing in front of the state Board of Dentistry. It's set for June 4. 

News 9 did reach out to the dentist accused of mishandling the drugs but did not hear back as of Friday evening.