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 Coralville dentist charged with repeatedly performing expensive but unnecessary dental procedures on patients will retain his license subject to two years of disciplinary probation.
In March 2025, the Iowa Dental Board charged Dr. Jefferey Rubel, 63, of Coralville’s Coral West Dental clinic, with knowingly making misleading, deceptive, untrue, or fraudulent representations in the practice of dentistry; unprofessional or unethical conduct; and failure to maintain a reasonably satisfactory standard of competency in the practice of dentistry…