Whetstone
Whetstone v. Board of Dental Examiners
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
On the fifteenth day of March, 1926, the Board of Dental Examiners of the state of California, after hearing had upon the accusation charging the petitioner with unprofessional conduct, made and entered its order suspending the petitioner’s license to practice dentistry in the state of California for the period of five years. Upon writ of certiorari, this order was annulled. Prom this judgment the Board of Dental Examiners of the state of California appeals.
The accusation filed with the Board of Dental Examiners, and upon which the petitioner was tried and found guilty, alleges that the petitioner on or about the twelfth day of January, 1926, did wilfully and unlawfully aid and abet an unlicensed person to practice dentistry in the state of California in that the said L. S. Whetstone did knowingly and unlawfully allow and permit his office nurse to clean teeth and administer treatment for pyorrhea on the gums of one J. W. Cull, at the office of the said L. S. Whetstone, in the city of Sacramento, and that the said L. S. Whetstone did, prior thereto, and on or about the fifteenth day of August, 1925, knowingly and wilfully permit and allow his office nurse to treat the gums of…