April 06, 2007	Friday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 17, 1428

LONDON: A dentist was barred from his practice when he was found guilty on Thursday of urinating in a surgical sink and using sterilised dental instruments on his ears and nails. Alan Hutchinson, a 51-year-old father of three, was erased from the dental register after a medical tribunal in London found him to have acted in an inappropriate and unprofessional way at his clinic in Batley, northern England. The General Dental Council heard how Hutchinson used unhygienic practices, including probing his ears and cleaning his fingernails with sterilised tools, refusing to routinely wear gloves and urinating in the clinic sink.

He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges except that of not regularly wearing gloves, claiming he had a latex allergy.—AFP