The Review-Journal’s investigative reporter Arthur Kane talks about what he found in his 5 month investigation of the Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners.
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Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal stabbing in the central valley Sunday evening. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jose Conseco is officially the new owner of Showtime car wash. Staff and customers celebrated the occasion with games and photographs with the Major League Baseball outfielder. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Family and friends attended the funeral for 6-year-old Gavin Murray at Palm Mortuary Northwest. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Andrew Yang stopped by the RJ Studio to join Rory Appleton and Steve Sebelius on the RJ Politics podcast. This episode is set to air Friday November 1st, 2019.
In a new addition of the Vegas Nation Stadium Show Ed Graney and Rick Velotta discus the latest construction on the Raiders Allegiant Stadium with interviews from Don Webb.
If choose to file a complaint against a Nevada dentist, here are the forms dental board requires a patient to complete.
The Nevada Board of Dental Examiners and the courts provide patients with ways to check dentists’ background for actions and malpractice lawsuits. But the Review-Journal investigation found that dental board information is sometimes incomplete.
Patients who claim dentists made mistakes and injured them say the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners isn’t doing enough to protect the public. While complaints have risen, board actions have plummeted and only a handful of dentists lost their licenses in recent years, a Review-Journal investigation found. Auditors also have found serious problems with the board’s disciplinary process.
The Las Vegas Dental Association has charged the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners is not treating all dentists fairly. The sister of the LVDA executive director sought treatment from then-board president Byron Blasco. Her complaint to the dental board claims Blasco tried to charge her for unnecessary treatment that other dentists said she doesn’t need. But the board and the Nevada Attorney General dismissed the complaint.