The Iowa Dental Board within the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing oversees the state’s dental profession. (Photo by Getty Images; logo courtesy State of Iowa)
A central Iowa dentist has agreed to surrender her license after being charged with professional incompetence in the case of a patient who lost six teeth.
The Iowa Dental Board alleges that in January 2022, dentist Marion Jane Blount of Ames, now 74, placed temporary crowns on six teeth of a patient and then failed to replace them within permanent crowns in a timely fashion. As a result, the board alleges, the patient was in pain and eventually required treatment for an infection…