Kacper Jakub Latos

Introduction

Kacper Jakub Latos is a dentist who has been struck off — erased — from the register of the General Dental Council (GDC), the UK regulator for dental professionals. On 24 June 2026, a Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of the Dental Professionals Hearings Service made an order to erase him from the register and suspended his registration with immediate effect, bringing to a close a substantive hearing that had opened on 15 June 2026. The committee found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, ruling that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, failed to obtain informed consent, permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and did not cooperate with the GDC.

Background Information

Latos was a GDC registrant, number 289372, and had qualified in 2020, according to MedicWatch. Neither source names the practice where he worked or the part of the country he practised in, and the patient at the centre of the case is not named either.

The case reached the hearings service with an interim suspension already in place — the precautionary measure that prevents or limits a registrant practising while their case proceeds. MedicWatch’s decision list records Interim Orders Committee decisions on 9 December 2025, 8 April 2026 and 19 May 2026, each continuing that suspension. An entry headed “Interim order imposed” on 9 December 2025 records the committee continuing the interim suspension under an 18-month order, described as an “interim, precautionary decision while the GDC process continues”; the May 2026 entry records that 18-month order as originally imposed on 29 January 2025. The April 2026 entry notes that the suspension had by then been extended four times by the High Court, most recently in January 2026 for 12 months, and the May entry adds that the order was due to expire on 28 July 2026, with the GDC to apply to the High Court for an extension.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings below are regulatory findings made by a General Dental Council Professional Conduct Committee, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings were reported.

The PCC heard the case between 15 and 25 June 2026, and on 24 June 2026 it found Latos’s fitness to practise impaired by misconduct. The findings, as summarised on the public hearing page and by MedicWatch, were that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, that he failed to obtain informed consent, and that he permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her and did not cooperate with the GDC. The patient is not named in either source. The final determination document published with the hearing was listed as redacted by the hearings service, so the findings are known through this public summary alone.

The outcome followed the same day. The hearings service’s recorded summary states: “On 24 June 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Latos from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately.” The outcome is recorded as “Erased and Immediate suspension”, and MedicWatch summarised it in the same terms: “The committee ordered erasure and imposed an immediate suspension covering the appeal period.”

Public Reaction and Consequences

Neither source records any public or press reaction to the erasure; coverage is limited to the regulator’s own published decisions and MedicWatch’s record of them. The professional consequence, however, is unambiguous. Being struck off — the regulator calls it “erasure” — removes a practitioner from the register, and a practitioner who has been erased is “no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK”. The immediate suspension ordered on 24 June 2026 covers the appeal period, so the restrictions on him continue while any appeal is decided.

Current Status

Latos is erased from the GDC register. Erasure “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”. At the time of MedicWatch’s most recent check — the page was “Last verified against the General Dental Council register on 9 July 2026” — it still carried a “Currently suspended” status label, consistent with the immediate suspension covering the appeal period. No appeal against the erasure was reported in the sources.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Latos’s ability to work as a dentist in the UK: it is registration that permits practice, and he is no longer permitted to practise the profession. The interim suspension had already kept him out of practice through the final stages of the process — in place from January 2025 according to the May 2026 entry, sustained through Interim Orders Committee reviews in December 2025, April 2026 and May 2026 and four High Court extensions — before the June 2026 hearing removed him from the register altogether. The findings themselves now form his permanent regulatory record: a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, a failure to obtain informed consent, permitting an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and non-cooperation with his regulator. Any return to practice would require review after the five-year minimum.