Anchorage dentist who defrauded Medicaid and extracted patient tooth while riding hoverboard [View all]

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Anchorage dentist who defrauded Medicaid and extracted patient tooth while riding hoverboard sentenced to prison


An Anchorage dentist who extracted a patient’s tooth while on a hoverboard was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for dozens of charges including Medicaid fraud.

Seth Lookhart was captured on video extracting the tooth from the unconscious patient. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton said Monday that Lookhart nearly killed several patients by frequently sedating them for extended periods of time.

“In reviewing all this over and over again, I have this visceral response — you darn near killed some people,” he said.

Lookhart was found guilty by a jury in January on 46 charges including Medicaid fraud, embezzlement, reckless endangerment and unlawful dental acts. He formerly worked at Alaska Dental Arts in 2015 but bought the business the next year and changed its name to Clear Creek Dental.

Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2020/09/15/anchorage-dentist-who-defrauded-medicaid-and-extracted-patient-tooth-while-riding-hoverboard-sentenced-to-prison/
(Anchorage Daily News)