A woman was arrested after authorities said she was illegally practicing dentistry out of her Miami-Dade home.
Karim S. Cordova, 54, was arrested Wednesday on charges including practicing dentistry without a license, possession of a controlled substance, hazardous waste violation and failure to track biomedical waste, an arrest report said.
According to the report, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Medical Crimes Squad launched an investigation after an anonymous complaint that Cordova was practicing dentistry without a license at her home on Northwest 44th Street.
The Department of Health confirmed Cordova and no one else at the home was licensed to practice dentistry, the report said.
Investigators “discovered activity consistent with the practice of dentistry being performed” at the home and made an appointment with Cordova by text message for a tooth extraction where she quoted a $150 price and gave her home’s address, the report said.
The appointment was made for Wednesday and two undercover detectives entered the home for the tooth extraction consultation before Cordova was taken into custody, the report said.
The home was searched and found to have “a functional dental set up in one of the bedrooms,” the report said.
Cordova was booked into jail and appeared in bond court on Thursday, where the judge said she’s a licensed dentist in Peru but not in the United States. The judge set her bond at $7,800.