00:00Be careful and make sure that the dentist you are going to is licensed.
00:05It might be cheap and you might get in trouble for a dental procedure
00:09like the one being done by a Nasacoting suspect in Cotabato.
00:13Jun Veneracion, for TUTOK.
00:17What do you call that?
00:18White cleaning.
00:19Ah, white cleaning.
00:21Dental cleaning on the side of the river?
00:23That's what the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group discovered
00:26when they conducted an intrepid operation in Cotabato City.
00:29And what the clinic was doing,
00:31it was a pecking dentist.
00:33What he didn't know,
00:34it was the police that he was cleaning.
00:37At least the PNP should be white.
00:39After the cleaning,
00:41the pecking dentist was supposed to put braces.
00:44This is where the other policemen came out.
00:46Yes, we are arresting this illegal practice of dentistry.
00:50The list of licensed dentists of the Philippine Dental Association of Suspects is not included in the list.
00:55According to the investigation,
00:56this is the assistant of a real dentist
00:59before he started providing dental services on social media.
01:03The services that he offers,
01:05dental services,
01:07is first the cleaning and also putting braces.
01:11This is priced at Php 1,000,
01:15including the materials and labor.
01:18Aside from being cheap,
01:19there is also a discount,
01:20that's why a lot of pecking dentists are already involved.
01:24The patients who posted on his social media account
01:28that his hands were infected are proven here.
01:30What we also saw during the operation
01:32is the hygiene that this fake dentist is doing.
01:37He is just sterilizing the items in hot water
01:41that should not be done by a real dentist.
01:45The suspect is facing charges of violation of the Philippine Dental Act of 2007,
01:50Code 9 of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
01:53We are still trying to get hold of the suspect.
01:56According to a dentist,
01:58a lot of bad things can happen
02:00if a patient trusts his teeth to the wrong person.
02:05Possibly, their patients are infected with diseases from other people
02:10or they are not the ones who are infected.
02:13Aside from the suspect being arrested,
02:15there are other pecking dentists online
02:17that are being monitored by the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group.
02:20They are warning the public to be wary
02:23if the service is too cheap.
02:26For GMA Integrated News, I'm Jun Veneracion,
02:2924 Hours.
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