Thread: Here's a dentist for you

Man charged with running unlicensed dental practice

Associated Press

Published on: 05/02/07

Taken from the AJC:

CARROLLTON — Authorities have arrested an illegal immigrant on charges that he ran an unlicensed dental practice out of his home in Carrollton.

Ernesto Estrado is accused of performing procedures on hundreds of illegal immigrants who were afraid to go to a licensed dentist.

Authorities say the man used pliers, box cutters and etching blades he bought at a hardware store to pull teeth, fill cavities and create dentures.

Authorities searched his home and found prescription painkillers, hypodermic needles and a ledger that detailed cash payments from more than 100 people.

Estrada is being held without bond in the Carroll County Jail.


I certainly hope he's deported, but more importantly, why didn't ICE just set up shop and get these illegals as they are coming in, load them on a bus, and ship them back to Mexico? I'll pay for the gas

I certainly hope he's deported, but more importantly, why didn't ICE just set up shop and get these illegals as they are coming in, load them on a bus, and ship them back to Mexico? I'll pay for the gas

Sometimes I think that would be too much like 'getting it right'. And as for the gas money...I think you'd have a lot of us pitching in on that one!