In November 2024, the dental board suspended Janisse's license for allegedly grabbing channel lock pliers from a toolbox and using them to remove a man's implant during oral surgery in November 2023.

The patient said he had seen Dr. Robert Janisse pull out "rusty channel locks" before turning to an assistant and making a ...

Janisse had trouble removing the patient's dental implant with surgical forceps, so he stepped away to grab a non-sterile channel lock plier from a toolbox in another room to use in extraction ...