CATEGORY 8 AUSTRALASIAN DENTIST Murray omas said the nding against Holt had been several years in the making. “ e board works to uphold public con dence in the dental profession, and here we have demonstrated we will not tolerate dishonest behaviour from practitioners that undermines trust in the profession,” he a rmed. ‘ e Board is delighted the tribunal recognised the need for honesty and integrity when working as a dentist. ‘ e protection of the public would be undermined if the Respondent [Mr Holt], who is clearly not presently t to be a health practitioner, could nonetheless continue to train health practitioners in the same or related elds, or could continue to use titles that suggested he was still a registered health practitioner,’ the tribunal members found. While all this was taking place he was claiming that the AADFA had been sold: “To a global corporation in the facial aesthetics sector, in an extremely lucrative deal to the tune of 8 gures,” and he has long since retired. However this is at odds with the Tribunal ndings that note that ownership of AADFA now belongs to Mr Holt’s wife, who is the sole director of the company. e tribunal found that Mr Holt remains an active employee of AADFA and a major promoter of the training company despite his lack of registration. Photos of the wannabe jet setting Mr Holt were also posted on social media showing him disembarking from “his private jet” with his pet dog. e tribunal’s full decision was published on Austlii. Could it get more bizarre? Unbelievingly, it has. He has revealed his next business venture will be with his dog as his business partner! Good move. It’s best to stick with the friends that stick by you at trying times like this. u NEWS The case of Myles Holt, former dental practitioner, gets more and more bizarre as he plunges himself from crises to crises. Formerly from Melbourne, the deregistered dentist has been banned from practising in Australia for ve years and hit with record legal costs after he was found to have misled a court. After several court appearances between the Dental Board of Australia and Holt, e Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NTCAT) made a nal ruling against Holt on October 11, 2023, nding that Holt had engaged in professional misconduct by giving dishonest evidence during proceedings in a local court. His former employer in Darwin sacked him for breach of contract, because Holt didn’t work on Saturdays, as the contract stipulated. Mr Holt then sued his employer saying he was seeing a psychologist when in fact he was working as a dentist in Singapore where he had a more favourable tax advantage. Bad move. Holt was found by NTCAT to have provided fraudulent documents to his Singaporean employment. NTCAT determined that Mr Holt had lied about seeking treatment from a psychologist, and that he had no proof of any visits. To make matters even worse, it was also noted that in 2015 Holt had been using an unapproved quali cation in Singapore, and was ned by the Singapore Dental Council to pay $50,000. He has since been declared bankrupt in Singapore after failing to pay the ne there, marking his move back to Australia. Could it get much worse for him? Surely he’d quit while he was behind. No, more bad moves by Mr Holt. NTCAT also found that Holt has been using his former status as a registered practitioner to promote himself as a healthcare trainer for the business Australasian Academy of Dento-Facial Aesthetics (AADFA), which is “a concern given our ndings as to his dishonesty and professional misconduct.” Myles has left the building … and dentistry Dentist “engaged in professional misconduct”, banned from practising and issued with record fine in landmark case The tribunal findings: e tribunal has now ordered Holt to pay $100,000 in legal costs – the highest amount ever ordered against a dental practitioner – to the Dental Board of Australia. Apart from the very real legal and nancial predicaments he has brought onto himself he has also been the subject of numerous national newspaper stories ridiculing him with headlines such as: u ‘Frequent yer dentist who misled court can’t handle the tooth’ u ‘Biting o a bit too much’ u ‘Dodgy Darwin dentist cops colossal costs order after failing tooth test.’ e NTCAT found that he “knowingly tendered false documents” which is “seriously dishonest, and that behaviour falls well short of the standard expected”. NTCAT also noted that throughout the proceedings there was “further dishonesty and no expression of remorse.” Now he is disquali ed from applying for registration and banned from working in health services providing dental and educational services including training in providing botox, dermal llers or any other cosmetic injectable, carboxytherapy, facial fat reduction, or the extraction and injection of blood and blood products until he is registered as a health practitioner under the National Law. e Tribunal also noted that reregistration is not automatic at the conclusion of the ve year prohibition period. NTCAT found that his dishonesty is a real concern for other dentists that rely on a practitioners’ good standing to protect the profession and the patients they serve. NTCAT believes that Mr Holt should not have legitimacy in his ability as an educator. Mr Holt is also prohibited from using the following titles: Dental Surgeon; Medico-Legal Advisor; Doctor or Dr; Global Clinical Director; and Honorary Lecturer or Aesthetic Dentistry. e tribunal noted that at the time of the nal hearing on October 11, 2023, these titles were still in place on the AADFA website, despite Mr Holt surrendering his registration. Dental Board of Australia chair Dr
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