Jaroslaw Michal Iwanicki
Introduction
Jaroslaw Michal Iwanicki is a dentist who was registered with the General Dental Council under number 252779. On 17 April 2026, at the conclusion of a Dental Professionals Hearings Service substantive hearing that had started on 13 April 2026, a General Dental Council Professional Conduct Committee determined that his fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and directed that his name be erased from the Dental Register — the sanction commonly described as being struck off.
Background Information
The published determination records little of Iwanicki’s personal or professional history beyond his role as a registered dentist and his GDC registration number, 252779. It does record that by April 2026 he had an adverse fitness to practise history: at the time of the hearing he was already indefinitely suspended from the register over clinical concerns of a similar nature — a circumstance the Committee listed among the aggravating factors. His disengagement from the regulator was equally well established by then: from 22 June 2021 onwards he failed to maintain up-to-date contact details with the GDC and did not respond to its communications.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations vs. findings. The findings are regulatory findings by a GDC Professional Conduct Committee on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities). No criminal conviction is recorded in the determination.
The charges concerned Iwanicki’s treatment of two patients. The Committee found proved that he failed to provide an adequate standard of clinical care to Patient 1 — insufficient diagnostic assessments — and to Patient 2, whose treatment involved poorly positioned brackets and a poor upper arch outcome. Alongside the clinical care findings, it found proved that he failed to maintain adequate record keeping for both patients, including the justification, grading and reporting of OPG radiographs.
The Committee also found proved the records-related charges: that he failed to retain dental records, photographs and treatment records, including records of treatment undertaken in Poland and the removal of braces; that he deleted clinical photographs of Patient 2; and that he failed to provide records when requested to do so by Patient 2 and the Practice. Not every element was proved — charge 3c, relating to study models, and 5a, concerning handwriting on Patient 2’s records, were found not proved, and charge 2a was found only partly proved. The Committee determined that the proven facts amounted to misconduct, breaching GDC Standards 1, 4, 6 and 9, and that his fitness to practise is currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, citing risk of repetition, lack of insight and ongoing risk of harm.
The non-cooperation strand completed the picture: from 22 June 2021 onwards, Iwanicki failed to co-operate with the GDC by not maintaining up-to-date contact details and not responding to its communications, and the Committee found both non-cooperation charges proved — a sustained failure described in the determination as a blatant disregard of the regulator and the systems regulating the profession. The determination records the aggravating factors the Committee identified: risk of harm in the treatment of Patients 1 and 2; misconduct repeated over a significant period of time; that disregard through non-cooperation and disengagement; the adverse fitness to practise history — the indefinite suspension already in force for clinical concerns of a similar nature; and persistent lack of insight, with no engagement with the investigation and no evidence of insight into his conduct. The Committee considered that there were no mitigating factors in this case.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The determination records the regulator’s findings rather than press coverage or public commentary; no public statements by Iwanicki are recorded in it, and he engaged with neither the investigation nor the hearing process. The consequences were regulatory. The Professional Conduct Committee identified a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem and concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient, directing erasure from the Dental Register on 17 April 2026.
The deep-seated attitudinal finding sat alongside the aggravating factors already recorded: the risk of harm to Patients 1 and 2, the misconduct repeated over a significant period, the blatant disregard of the GDC through non-cooperation, the pre-existing indefinite suspension for similar clinical concerns, and the persistent lack of insight. In that context, the Committee concluded that no sanction short of erasure met the case.
Current Status
As determined on 17 April 2026, Jaroslaw Michal Iwanicki is erased from the Dental Register and is struck off. Erasure removes a practitioner from the register so that they are no longer permitted to practise the profession in the UK; it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years but is otherwise indefinite. Unless a review were to change the outcome, he cannot work as a dentist in the United Kingdom.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Iwanicki’s ability to practise dentistry in the UK, closing a sequence that ran from the inadequate care of two patients and the records failures — records not retained, clinical photographs deleted, records not provided on request — through more than four years of non-cooperation with the GDC from 22 June 2021 onwards, to removal from the register on 17 April 2026. The Committee’s route to that outcome was shaped by what it found missing: insight, engagement and cooperation. With no mitigating factors identified, a risk of repetition and ongoing risk of harm cited, and a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem identified, the Committee concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Jaroslaw Michal Iwanicki — Struck off the register · 17 April 2026”, 17 April 2026.source