D'AMOUR v. BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN DENTISTRY


409 Mass. 572 (1991)

567 N.E.2d 1226

ROBERT D'AMOUR vs. BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN DENTISTRY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Kenefick, II (Barbara J. Sweeney with him) for the plaintiff.

Maureen Brodoff, Assistant Attorney General, for the Board of Registration in Dentistry.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


LIACOS, C.J.

On October 18, 1989, the Board of Registration in Dentistry (board) suspended Robert D'Amour's license to practice dentistry in the Commonwealth for three years, to be followed by a probationary period of three years. The board found that D'Amour: (1) committed malpractice in failing to observe, document, and discuss a cancerous lesion inside the mouth of a seventy-nine year old patient, and in inserting dentures after observing the lesion; (2) failed...

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