In August, the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners revoked the license of
John Hall of Cornelius, N.C., based on a finding that he for some reason had
been injecting his semen into the mouths of several patients during office
visits. He had tearfully denied the charges, but his semen was found on
syringes turned in by two of Hall's assistants, and patients testified to an
"awful"-tasting substance he had squirted into their mouths (and one testified
to his seriously improper sexual manner in treating her). Hall told the
examiners that the reason he had semen in the office was for a sperm-count
test concerning his use of the hair-loss drug Propecia, but then could not
explain why other people's DNA (perhaps from their saliva) was also found in
the syringes. [Charlotte Observer, 7-26-04, 7-31-04, 8-17-04]