ROME, Ga. – Federal agents and police raided a children’s dentistry practice in a northwest Georgia town, saying they were responding to complaints that patients were improperly restrained.
Authorities executed a search warrant at the Rome dentist’s office on Thursday to obtain records in an ongoing criminal investigation, Rome police said.
The search was done after numerous complaints regarding “the improper use of restraints as well as the improper and/or unnecessary performance of dental work on minor children,” police said in a statement.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was also involved in the search.
The investigation began in May 2011, when the mother of a 3-year-old girl told police her daughter was tied down and injured during a dental appointment, a search warrant affidavit in Floyd County Superior Court states.