“The danger comes from a couple different fronts, I would say,” said Dr. Carver Little, who owns Dunedin Family Dentistry, said there’s higher price to pay getting dental work done by someone who isn’t a licensed dentist. She said tooth gem installations average about $90 a piece. Vargo said when she opened up shop in 2021, installing tooth gems was perfectly legal and lucrative at the time. And I thought I can just do this and use my creative personality and have fun.” “During COVID, it was really hard for all of us nurses and so I wanted a way out, a lot of nurses wanted a way out, so this was it,” she said.
When she started her company, BeDazzled Smilez, she said it was as a side business but she planned to eventually do it full-time. And so they proceeded to tell me the laws changed three weeks ago from when I was shut down,” Vargo said.
“Before I decided to open this business, I hired a lawyer to look into the regulations for me and at the time there were no regulations. The document reads in part, “Supplying artificial substitutes for the natural teeth or furnishing, supplying, constructing, reproducing, or repairing any prosthetic denture, bridge, appliance, or any other structure designed to be worn in the human mouth except on the written work order of a duly licensed dentist.” We reached out to the Florida Department of Health and they said applying tooth gems is considered practicing dentistry and it requires a license.Ī revised 2022 Florida Board of Dentistry rulebook doesn’t spell out tooth gems by name, but it does address that anyone performing and getting paid for dental services of any kind, must be a licensed dentist. “When we got to my station is when they pulled their badges and said they were from the Department of Health.” I said, ‘Yeah, but I hear you’re here for tooth gems,’ and they’re like, ‘Yeah,’ and we started talking and I was guiding them to my station,” Vargo said. “The minute they saw me, they started asking if I was a nurse. Vargo said she was working out of a Pinellas County tattoo shop when she got a visit from who she thought was two customers. “And when I got shut down last year, I decided to pivot because I had so much money invested at that point and so I became a whole seller for tooth gem suppliers.”
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“I’ve gotten certified by three different people to learn how to do this,” she said. Well, she was a tooth gem installer until recently. She’s a full-time nurse and a part-time tooth gem installer.
In a now-viral online video, a Bay area tooth gem installer is sounding off about how she learned the hard way that applying tooth gems in the state of Florida is against the law.īritany Vargo sounds like a professional, but she’s not a licensed dentist.
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The Florida Department of Health states that applying tooth gems is considered practicing dentistry and it requires a license.Britany Vargo was a part-time tooth gem installer until the Department of Health came in and shut down her business, BeDazzled Smilez.
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