Unregistered dentist who treated a woman from a Wigan Pier flat is hit with a big court bill

An unregistered Wigan dentist who worked from a canalside flat has been hit with a hefty court bill.
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Dr Jonathan Saunders appeared before borough magistrates to admit to practising dentistry unlawfully on a named female on May 11 and 12 when not registered as a dentist and to a separate charge of unlawfully carrying out dentistry when not registered.

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All the offences were breaches of the 1984 Dentistry Act and were committed at Saunders's flat at Trencherfield Mill which was doubling as a surgery.

He was hit with fines, costs and a payment to victim services totalling £3,440.