A woman was arrested after authorities said she was illegally practicing dentistry out of her Miami-Dade home.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Department of Health confirmed Cordova and no one else at the home was licensed to practice dentistry, the report said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The home was searched and found to have “a functional dental set up in one of the bedrooms,” the report said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested after authorities said she was illegally practicing dentistry out of her Miami-Dade home. Karim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-188929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}