LIVERMORE FALLS — A kitchen fire heavily damaged a retired dentist’s home on Park Street on Tuesday evening. Gerard Girardin and his sister-in-law managed to get out of his one-story home safely, Fire Chief Edward Hastings said Wednesday evening. The cause of the fire was stove burners accidentally left on, he said. Flames spread throughout […]
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Jan Kippax goes to trial in failure of care lawsuit
AUGUSTA — Oral surgeon Jan Kippax was in court Tuesday defending himself against a civil claim that he failed to comply with the standards of care when treating a Minot man whose jaw became infected after tooth extractions. The embattled Lewiston doctor also is facing questioning before the Maine Board of Dental Practice in its […]
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Edwin S. Gibson
SOUTH PARIS — Edwin Stearns Gibson, 93, passed away peacefully with family by his side at his home on Friday, Aug. 11, after a brief illness. He was born on May 6, 1924, in Visalia, Calif., to Leslie and Annette S. Gibson of Norway and West Paris, respectively. Ed was 8 years old when his family […]
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Kippax's dental license suspended for incompetence
LEWISTON — The Board of Dental Practice has taken emergency action to suspend the license of Jan Kippax, an oral surgeon operating on Main Street. According to the Board, Kippax operated on patients without adequate anesthesia, used expired medications for sedation and extracted the wrong teeth from patients, among other things. According to a letter […]
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People You Know: Rose Sheline, Finding her place in Lewiston-Auburn
AUBURN — Rose Sheline wasn’t planning to come to America — until she met Carl on a mission trip. He spent two weeks in the Philippines, her home country, in 1998. They wrote each other for the next three years while she finished dental school. A decade later, she still wasn’t planning to move here. […]
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Dr. Stuart Cohen, after 52 years, is hanging up his drill
LEWISTON — Twelve years ago, one longtime assistant retired. Then eight years ago, another. Stuart Cohen thought about joining them, but not seriously. In January, his wife left her job of 53 years. That did it. At 80, Cohen, one of the state’s oldest practicing dentists, decided to close his practice on Dec. 31. “Everybody […]