An unregistered woman offered a potential client dental procedures involving peroxide.
The city’s sheriff court heard Leanne Couzens claimed to be a dental hygienist and offered tooth-whitening procedures, despite not being registered with the General Dental Council (GDC).
The 36-year-old told a potential customer, during a consultation at Doll Face Beauty salon, that she had 12 years’ experience working as a dental hygienist, the sheriff court heard.
However, the reality was that the GDC had removed Couzens from the register in August 2012 after she failed to pay her fees meaning she was no longer legally entitled to carry out dental procedures.
The case came to light after authorities received information Couzens was still carrying out tooth-whitening procedures.
Depute fiscal Laura Bruce told the court Lyndsay Grant obtained an appointment with Couzens at noon on June 27 last year, and attended with another witness, Stephen Grant.
The fiscal said: “The witnesses were taken into a treatment room. Lyndsay Grant discussed tooth whitening and the accused advised why she, the accused, was the best person to do this.
“The accused stated she was a dental hygienist of 12 years standing and said she could make impressions of Ms Grant’s teeth and make her own moulds.
“The accused stated that Ms Grant’s home tooth-whitening kit would not have peroxide and that she could get peroxide on prescription from someone else.”
Couzens told Ms Grant her prices were lower than a dental surgery and offered the treatment for £99.
The fiscal continued: “Stephen Grant asked the accused if she had ever been registered with the General Dental Council to which she replied she had never been asked that. The accused stated she had been up until the previous year and had let it lapse.”
Couzens admitted that, on June 26 last year, at Doll Face Beauty Salon, Reform Street, while not being a registered dentist or registered dental care professional, she practised or held herself out to be prepared to practise dentistry, whether directly or by implication.
Sentence was deferred to October 15 for reports.