We reached out to the Florida Department of Health and they said applying tooth gems is considered practicing dentistry and it requires a license.Ī revised 2022 Florida Board of Dentistry rulebook doesn’t spell out tooth gems by name, but it does address that anyone performing and getting paid for dental services of any kind, must be a licensed dentist.
“When we got to my station is when they pulled their badges and said they were from the Department of Health.” I said, ‘Yeah, but I hear you’re here for tooth gems,’ and they’re like, ‘Yeah,’ and we started talking and I was guiding them to my station,” Vargo said. “The minute they saw me, they started asking if I was a nurse.
Vargo said she was working out of a Pinellas County tattoo shop when she got a visit from who she thought was two customers. “And when I got shut down last year, I decided to pivot because I had so much money invested at that point and so I became a whole seller for tooth gem suppliers.”
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“I’ve gotten certified by three different people to learn how to do this,” she said. Well, she was a tooth gem installer until recently. She’s a full-time nurse and a part-time tooth gem installer. In a now-viral online video, a Bay area tooth gem installer is sounding off about how she learned the hard way that applying tooth gems in the state of Florida is against the law.īritany Vargo sounds like a professional, but she’s not a licensed dentist. Vargo is now trying to get the board of dentistry to change their minds or come to a compromise.Carver Little, owner of Dunedin Family Dentistry, said there’s higher price to pay getting dental work done by someone who isn’t a licensed dentist
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