A Leicester dental nurse who "put patients at risk of serious harm" has been struck off by the General Dental Council.
Sarah Anne Mickleburgh, who worked at Care Dental, in Warren Lane, Leicester Forest East, was found guilty by the GDC of misleading and dishonest behaviour.
A tribunal was told she had falsified a life support qualification and was also found not to have completed such training. She failed to prove she had the required professional insurance cover.
Mickleburgh did not attend the London hearing. She has 28 days to challenge the ban, which was imposed immediately, before it is made permanent. The allegations were heard by the GDC's Professional Conduct Committee.
The charges she faced included providing a certificate purporting to be from the Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare NHS Trust certifying she had successfully completed basic life support training at the Alfred Hill Centre, in Glenfield, in November, 2011.
The committee found the certificate was inaccurate in that she had not completed basic life support training at the centre. She was also accused of not responding to requests by the General Dental Council to provide evidence of appropriate professional indemnity cover against compensation claims from patients.
Announcing its decision, the committee said: "Her breaches put patients at risk of serious harm. Ms Mickleburgh's actions were dishonest, misleading her employer that she had a current basic life support certificate.
"This itself could have impacted upon patient safety and also put her employers at risk.
"Ms Mickleburgh's actions were deliberate in that she set out to create and submit a false document, which purported to show that she had up-to-date basic life support training.''