(Radio Iowa) – A Waterloo dentist convicted of public intoxication after an arrest outside the state prison in Anamosa is no longer licensed to practice dentistry in Iowa. Fifty-nine-year-old Paymun Bayati was the prison dentist. The Iowa Capital Dispatch was first to report that in December of last year, Bayati performed a root canal on a inmate at the prison and was arrested by an Anamosa police officer after prison administrators called to report the dentist appeared to be intoxicated and was trying to drive away.

The Iowa Dental Board suspended his license a few weeks later. The dentist told the Iowa Capitol Dispatch he doesn’t drink and believes someone at the prison spiked his coffee. Bayati, who has also practiced dentistry in Sioux City, has voluntarily surrendered his license.