After 2 years or more of stall tactics by attorney’s representing Small Smiles Dental Center defendants, the New York trials are set to begin in three weeks! Yes, you heard me, three, count’em 1… 2,…3… weeks! Yahoo! Jury selection set to begin September 9, 2013.
Tuesday (August 14, 2013) the court ruled against Small Smiles and defendants and their plea for a Summary Judgment — essentially telling the old boys to buckle-up, quit whining, they have you by the balls, be ready for trial or start writing checks. Small Smiles Dental Centers’ former dentists (17 in total) and that nasty DeRose crew in Colorado are in for a very bumpy ride.
| Small Smiles Dental Centers NY Malpractice Defendants are: |
| Companies | Individuals |
| FORBA Holdings, LLC | Dan E. DeRose |
| n/k/a Church Street Health Management, LLC | Michael A. DeRose |
| FORBA NY, LLC | Edward J. DeRose |
| FORBA, LLC n/k/a LICSAC, NY, LLC | Adolph Padula |
| DD Marketing, Inc. | William A. Mueller |
| DeRose Management, LLC | Michael Roumph |
| Small Smiles Dentistry of Albany, LLC | Maziar Izadi, DDS |
| Albany Access Dentistry, PLLC | Laura Kroner, DDS |
| Small Smiles Dentistry of Syracuse, LLC | Judith Mori, DDS |
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| Lissett Bernal, DDS |
| Edmise Forstal, DDS | |
| Evan Goldstein, DDS | |
| Keerthi Golla, DDS | |
| Nassef Lancen, DDS | |
| Wadia Hanna, DDS | |
| Koury Bonds, DDS | |
| Tarek Elsafty, DDS | |
| Dimitri Filostrat, DDS | |
| Yaqobb Khan, DDS | |
| Delia Morales, DDS | |
| Janine Randazzo, DDS | |
| Loc Vin Nuu, DDS | |
| Grace Yaghmai, DDS | |
| and others |
Some of the dentists say the used their best medical judgment to provide dental care to the children suing them, but evidence indicates that isn’t even close. In fact, it’s laughable! Evidence provided showed Koury Bonds, DDS and the others violated the “relevant standard on care” on several issues.
According to the ruling, there is plenty of evidence these dentists prepared and recommend treatment without clinical justification and performed substandard care.
They unnecessarily restrained children in papoose boards; extracted teeth that without clinical justification; failed to use local anesthetics, filled teeth that didn’t need to be filled; altering records; performing unnecessary baby root canals;(remember that $35 million dollar award a few weeks ago over unnecessary root canals?) failed to obtain proper informed consent for treatment from parents; just to name a few. These guys knowingly and purposefully used informed consent forms that they knew did not meet the standards or guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD).
Now, haven’t I been screaming this as loud as I can for some 6 years now. Everything I’ve uncovered and reported here about this horrible place is being proven to be the truth, and it looks like it’s going to be told in front of a jury, pretty damn quickly.
In the ruling the Judge states, “There…is ample evidence from which a jury could concluded that the defendants perpetuated a fraud on the plaintiff by treatment him and other Small Smiles patients not to meet his medical needs but as a means to maximize profits for the dentists, corporations and Individual Defendants.” (the DeRose crew)
More excerpts from the ruling:
“Email correspondence… demonstrates the overriding emphasis on profits.” One such email between Michael Roumph and the lead dentists in the Albany NY clinic states “[p]roduction per patient needs to improve.”
