A 70-year-old Long Island woman allegedly turned her kitchen into an illicit dentist office – disturbingly extracting five teeth from a trusting patient who paid her nearly $2,000, prosecutors said.
Gladys Serrano, 70, was hit with criminal charges this week for running the dental practice out of her one-bedroom apartment on Greenwich Street in Hempstead, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
“Practicing dentistry without proper authorization poses an incredibly serious risk to public health and safety,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly said in a statement. “This defendant’s alleged home operation endangered the well-being of at least one person in need of dental care.”…