Pensacola dentist Charles Stamitoles has license restricted by Ladapo
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo purchased an crisis restriction on the license of a Pensacola dentist experiencing prison charges for allegedly inappropriately touching females individuals and personnel.
According to the June 23 buy, Dr. Charles Stamitoles’ license is not revoked, but restricts him from practising on female individuals. He was also issued a formal reprimand.
“Dr. Stamitoles’ staff members are by now conscious of his deviant behavior, and this has not hindered him from his inappropriate conduct,” the closing buy pointed out. “Thus, almost nothing short of the rapid restriction of Dr. Stamitoles’ license to exercise as a dentist on feminine clients will secure the public from the hazards made by Dr. Stamitoles’ ongoing, unrestricted apply of dentistry.”
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Stamitoles has operated the Stamitoles Dental Heart of Creighton Street given that 2001 and has legally practiced dentistry in Florida considering that 1984.
In his profession, Stamitoles has racked up a prolonged historical past of administrative sanctions. Dentistry board files show that he has at least three reprimands on his license to follow dentistry, put in a total of six years on probation, expended a whole of three years and 30 times on suspension and has paid about $80,000 in fines and reimbursement of board investigations. He also experienced his license to practice dentistry in Georgia revoked.
He is at the moment experiencing 5 counts of misdemeanor sexual battery and a person felony count of battery on a particular person above 65.
In the felony situation, a 74-calendar year-outdated affected individual instructed deputies “that on her previous appointment … although she was sitting in the room, she had issues about her enamel and built a assertion to her dentist, S/Charles Stamitoles, that possibly she should really go see another dentist due to the fact she felt that (he) was not accomplishing everything to help her deal with her enamel.”
She explained to deputies “he put both of those of his hands on every aspect of her confront, though putting his experience about six to eight inches in front of her confront and advised her to search into his eyes.”
Stamitoles allegedly then instructed her that he can aid her with her teeth and kissed her on the brow.
Several other woman have elevated worries about the dentist’s perform.
Stamitoles also allegedly spoke sexually with a affected individual though suggestively touching her. For each an arrest report, he requested a affected person May well 18, 2022, if she could fulfill herself, adopted by telling her he could fulfill her “like a god.”
He also allegedly rubbed his physique from hers although moaning and instructed her that he imagined her tattoos ended up “captivating.”
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On Dec. 16, 2020, he allegedly patted a female patient’s breast while she was in the working chair though complimenting her physical appearance.
“(Target) stated that S/Stamitoles was starting to administer the medicine to numb her mouth place when he patted her with his hand on her correct breast spot,” the arrest report famous.
On May 24 and May 25, 2022, an worker documented he slapped her on the buttocks and hugged her from at the rear of though kissing her on her head.
The target informed deputies that she was in the rest room when Stamitoles “shut the doorway, he hugged her from guiding and kissed her on the again of her head and then instructed her to now do it to him.”
In the prison cases, Stamitoles waived his arraignment scheduled for Thursday and entered a plea of not guilty on five counts of misdemeanor battery. His arraignment for the felony charge is scheduled for July 8.
In terms of his dental practice, Ladapo’s emergency get barred Stamitoles from practicing on woman clients, but it does not prohibit him from continuing to practice on males.
Ladapo’s crisis buy referenced Stamitoles’ previous health care infractions in Florida and Ga as reasons to partially restrict his license — citing him as chronically earning incorrect professional medical choices as deemed by the Florida Board of Dentistry and falsifying medical files.
Stamitoles most new infraction was settled June 8 of this calendar year where by he was fined $5,000 and reprimanded mainly because he “failed to get and go the Regulations and Rules Assessment” as the Dentistry Board stipulated in a 2019 final get.
Benjamin Johnson can be attained at [email protected] or 850-435-8578