{"id":144734,"date":"2025-11-20T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:14:09","slug":"dentist-accused-of-treating-patients-while-licence-suspended-named-as-jacob-goldenberg-of-total-health-dentistry-in-ponsonby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144734\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist accused of treating patients while licence suspended named as Jacob Goldenberg of Total Health Dentistry in Ponsonby"},"content":{"rendered":"

He had his practising certificate suspended by the Dental Council<\/a> in March 2023, pending the completion of an investigation.<\/p>\n

His practice was put into liquidation in April 2024.<\/p>\n

He was granted temporary name suppression when initial charges were filed<\/a> against him by the Ministry of Health in 2024, after previously being named by RNZ in its investigation of Goldenberg\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n

But at the Auckland District Court on Wednesday morning, Judge Kevin Muir denied Goldenberg\u2019s request to keep name suppression until a verdict was delivered.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Judge Muir in court, Goldenberg argued that he should not be named until he could give evidence because he considered the allegations against him to be inaccurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clinical facts won\u2019t support the charges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Judge Muir said there was no evidence that publicly naming the dentist would cause him extreme hardship and that the public had a right to know about the proceedings.<\/p>\n

He said Goldenberg was given \u201cample time\u201d to file an application in support of his bid for name suppression, which he did not do.<\/p>\n

RNZ also opposed name suppression on the basis that publication might assist in alerting other people who might be affected to come forward.<\/p>\n

Judge Muir decided Goldenberg\u2019s name suppression would lapse at 4pm on November 20, to allow him an opportunity to obtain legal advice.<\/p>\n

Goldenberg is due back in court in January<\/a> when a trial date is expected to be set.<\/p>\n

Judge Muir urged Goldenberg, who has chosen to represent himself, to get legal representation.<\/p>\n

He said standby counsel would be appointed to assist Goldenberg during the trial.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He had his practising certificate suspended by the Dental Council in March 2023, pending the completion of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,806,33606,533,97508,134,85959,78,54173,13832,19339,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,6293,26890,18834,3940,29863,6123],"class_list":["post-144734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-as","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-goldenberg","tag-health","tag-hopkins","tag-in","tag-jacob","tag-jessica","tag-licence","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-patients","tag-ponsonby","tag-suspended","tag-total","tag-treating","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}