Dr. Paul Sclodnick claims on his website that it’s the “positive atmosphere he creates with his caring manner and extensive dental experience” that has brought so many patients into his Maple clinic, including actress Neve Campbell.Ask some of Sclodnick’s former patients and employees about atmosphere and you might get an entirely different response.Sclodnick, the principal dentist at Maple Dental Health, admitted this week to having had sex with one patient, while acting in a “predatory and sexually abusive manner” toward another former patient/employee.The dentist, who was once voted “best in Vaughan” by readers of the Vaughan Citizen and is a past president of the York Region Dental Society, is now finished.The discipline panel of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario yanked his licence following a joint submission from lawyers for the college and Sclodnick.Lawyer Matthew Wilton acknowledged that there was no other penalty available for his client. Sex with a patient is a cardinal sin in the health professions and the law calls for the mandatory revocation of the practitioner’s licence.“Your professional misconduct is a matter of profound concern,” the panel’s chair, Dr. Richard Hunter, told Sclodnick in a public reprimand.“It is completely unacceptable to your fellow dentists and to the public. You have brought discredit to the entire profession and to yourself. Public confidence in this profession has been put in jeopardy.”Sclodnick, who received his licence in 1979, declined to address the panel.One day while he was in the office with a now-former employee, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, he pulled back the woman’s scrub pants and then tugged at the waistband of her underwear, saying he wanted to see what colour they were, according to an agreed statement of facts.In another instance, he was alone with the woman in an elevator ...
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