Hidalgo man accused of performing botched dental procedures indicted

Gerardo Casas Fernandez

The 50-year-old Hidalgo man was arraigned Wednesday on an indictment accusing him of performing botched dental procedures on multiple women.

Gerardo Casas Fernandez was indicted on eight counts of dentistry act violations and two counts of injury to elderly in April.

On June 1, 2023, a Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a residence in La Joya in reference to someone practicing dentistry without a license.

The deputy met with Maria Elva Delgado and her sister, Maria Rosa Salinas, who stated that their teeth were bothering them so they had their daughter-in-law, identified as Nancy, find them a dentist, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Nancy found Cases who would do house calls.

The two women then met with Casas at Nancy’s house where he removed some of their teeth, but the sisters didn’t feel like Casas did a good job as they began to feel pain in their mouths months after the procedures.

According to the sisters, Casas measured them for dentures but claimed they were measured wrong because they didn’t fit properly and caused pain, and they wanted to press charges.

An investigator later met with Salinas who stated that she paid $1,800 for teeth removal and dentures. That investigator later met with another woman named Maria Villarreal who was also referred to Casas by Nancy.

Villarreal also paid Casas $1,800 for teeth removal and dentures. Casas extracted 10 of her teeth and measured her for dentures.

However, Villarreal never received her dentures and was still missing teeth at the time of speaking to police.

When investigators contacted Casas, he refused to cooperate with the investigation, according to the affidavit.

Casas is currently in custody on $52,500 in bonds, jail records show.

He has pleaded not guilty.

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