Toronto dentist who had sex with patient and fathered her child gets licence revoked

A Toronto dentist has had his licence to practiserevoked by the provincialregulator,who found he committed professional misconduct after heloanedmoney to one patient and gotinto atwo-year extramarital affair and had a child with another.

The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario found Amir Haydarianto be guilty of "disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional or unethical conduct" and sexual abuse of a patient in a penalty hearing on Monday.

The disciplinarypanel orderedHaydarian's certificate of registration to be revoked effective immediately.

And while the panel issued a reprimand, it won't be administered at this time.

"Dr. Haydarian has appealed the earlier findings of sexual abuse and professional misconduct," said communications director Lesley Byrne in an email.

Byrne said Haydarian'scounsel's request for an adjournment of the penalty hearing was partially granted. Now, all parties must make written submissions on the rest of the penalty, which issecurity for costs of counsellingandcosts of the discipline proceeding.

Byrne said the panel will deliberate after April 27.No timeline has been set for the release of their decision.

Symon Zucker, Haydarian's lawyer, said Monday that aside fromthe penalty costs, the next stage is the appeal.

"Dr.Haydarian continues to take the positions that he was married, that it was a valid marriage under both Islamic and Canadian law ... and that hopefully he'll bevindicated at the appeal level," said Zucker.

In a document outlining thereasons for their decision released Monday, the panel said there's "no dispute" that Haydarianwas in a sexual relationship with his client that produced a child in 2019, and that Haydarian did not disputethat he co-signed a mortgage for a patient.

Dentist 'inappropriately involved himself' with patients

The disciplinary hearings began in January last year over allegations he had engaged in a sexual relationship with a patientand that heloaned money to a second patientby co-signing a mortgage with her.

CBCNews reportedlast month that both acts were alleged by the college to be in violation of provincial law and professional rules.

According to provincial law, dentists are strictly forbidden from engaging in any kind of sexual relations with any patientwho is not their spouse.

Haydarian argued his marriage to another woman ended in divorce in a ceremony-by-proxy in Iran before he married his patient.

While she said she did decide to accept his proposal for marriage because he seemed to be a "good package," she deniedever marrying himand the panel found in her favour in its final decision.

In a separate case involving apatient, the panel also concluded that Haydarian crossed the patient/dentist boundary by entering into a financial relationship with apatient.

In the panel's reasoning document, the panel said both incidents would reasonably be regardedas "disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional or unethical" by others in the profession.

"In both circumstances, Dr. Haydarian used his position as a health-care provider to inappropriately involve himself in his patients' lives," reads the document.