Hong Kong police arrest 2 for allegedly practising as unlicensed dentists
Undercover officers pose as customers in two separate cases, which are first to emerge since update to regulations earlier this year
Hong Kong police have arrested two women on suspicion of practising as unlicensed dentists, the first cases since an update to regulations earlier this year.
The women, aged 24 and 33, were arrested by undercover officers posing as customers in two separate cases in as many days.
Police said on Friday that the pair were accused of failing to hold valid certificates to practise as dentists.
The 33-year-old woman, surnamed Tsoi, was allegedly taking digital impressions with an intra-oral scanner and prescribing clear aligners in an orthodontic centre in a commercial building on Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui. She was arrested on Thursday.
The force had received a complaint in February from a client who suspected that her dentist was unlicensed.
“Police sent an undercover officer as a customer and cracked down on an orthodontic clinic run by an unlicensed dentist,” said Senior Inspector Sit Ka-wing, of the miscellaneous inquiries subunit in Tsim Sha Tsui.