Regulatory Action against Ralph A. Landerman D.D.S.
In 1986, the California Board of Dental Examiners suspended the license of Ralph Landerman, D.D.S. after concluding that he had mistreated two patients. The accusation (shown below) describes how he used a Dermatron to diagnose “energy” problems with many of their teeth that he purported to treat with homeopathic injections followed by extraction of the teeth. (The Dermatron is a quack device claimed to identify diseased organs by detecting imbalances of electromagnetic energy flow throughout the body.) The board concluded that removal of the teeth—11 from one patient and 3 from the other—was unnecessary, caused the patients to become “dental cripples,” and constituted “gross ignorance and/or inefficiency and also demonstrates incompetence and/or gross negligence.”The case was settled with a stipulated order under which Landerman’s dental …
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