I am dumbfounded that the professional oversight system for dentists is so riddled with rules and loopholes that it allows someone like Jan Kippax to practice. I have had a run-in with Kippax, much like those already documented in the Sun Journal, with the addition of what I saw as raw blackmail thrown in.

There is absolutely no excuse for an oversight system so lax that it is essentially pointless. What kind of rules allow Kippax to keep practicing? The layers of bureaucratic rules in place shield inept and dangerous health care practitioners from public accountability. It is a classic example of why wide open access to any government regulatory system is needed. As it is, most professional oversight boards hide behind the “personnel” issue exception — a loophole so big an aircraft carrier could move through it.

Many of Kippax’s actions seem criminal to me, yet he keeps butchering people with the state’s blessing. How can this be? Where is the attorney general’s office?

And where is the local dental community? They should be up in arms about this beast sullying their own good reputations. The fact that they have let that man be part of their profession, despite multiple prior sanctions, is shameful. It will make many of their patients wonder about their own ethical standards.

Denying knowledge about Kippax’s butchery is disingenuous. His reputation follows him like a stench follows a skunk.

The whole episode is shameful.

Andrew Hall, Lewiston