What Is WADAP?

The Washington Dental Accountability Project, or WADAP, is a patient-driven public accountability and education project focused on dental accountability, patient-record access, transparency, documentation, and the rights of dental patients in Washington State.

WADAP was created to document one patient's experience, educate others who may face similar issues, and provide a public platform where dental patient concerns can be shared, documented, reviewed, and discussed responsibly.

WADAP is being developed with the goal of becoming a nonprofit organization dedicated to patient rights, dental accountability, public education, record-access transparency, and meaningful reform.

Why WADAP Exists

WADAP was created by a Washington State dental patient whose efforts to obtain his own dental records, understand his own treatment, and ask reasonable questions about his care led to a much larger concern: that patients may be left without adequate practical recourse when dental providers delay, withhold, fail to fully produce, fail to account for, or are alleged to have altered or misrepresented records that patients need in order to understand their care.

What began as a personal effort to understand one patient's own dental treatment became a broader concern about patient-record access, documentation integrity, regulatory accountability, continuity of care, retaliation, abandonment, informed consent, and the culture surrounding patient complaints in the dental profession.

Patients should not be required to pursue months of written demands, regulatory complaints, public-record requests, or litigation simply to obtain, verify, or understand their own health information.

The Core Concern

Dental records are not just office paperwork. They are the patient's ability to understand what happened, evaluate treatment, seek a second opinion, file a complaint, correct inaccurate information, protect legal rights, and make informed health care decisions.

When records are missing, incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, altered, selectively produced, or difficult to obtain, patients may be left at a serious disadvantage.

When a patient cannot see, compare, verify, or respond to the records being used by a provider, insurer, regulator, attorney, or disciplinary body, the patient's ability to pursue accountability can be seriously undermined.

WADAP exists because patient rights should be practical, not theoretical.

What WADAP Is Building Toward

WADAP aims to become a recognized patient-advocacy resource for Washington dental patients by providing:

• Plain-language information about patient rights under Washington law, including RCW 70.02
• Guidance on making written patient-record requests
• Guidance on preserving communications, timelines, envelopes, certified-mail receipts, portal messages, emails, and other documentation
• Information about filing regulatory complaints with the Washington State Department of Health and related agencies
• Templates, examples, and lessons learned from real patient experiences
• A public venue for patients to share and document their own dental provider experiences
• A record of recurring patterns across providers, practices, systems, and complaint processes that may warrant broader attention
• A fair process for providers or other involved persons to request corrections, clarifications, or responses

What WADAP Is

WADAP is a patient-rights and public-accountability project.

WADAP is intended to document patient experiences, educate the public, promote transparency, encourage responsible recordkeeping, support patient access to health information, and help identify patterns that may otherwise remain isolated or invisible.

WADAP is also intended to encourage fair public discussion about dental accountability, patient-record access, complaint systems, regulatory processes, and professional responsibility.

What WADAP Is Not

WADAP is not a court, regulatory agency, law firm, medical provider, dental provider, or adjudicative body.

WADAP does not make final findings of liability, professional misconduct, malpractice, negligence, record alteration, falsification, or legal wrongdoing.

Where allegations, concerns, opinions, or inferences are discussed, they should be understood in that context unless a court, agency, public record, or final legal determination states otherwise.

WADAP is not legal advice, medical advice, dental advice, or a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney, physician, dentist, or other qualified professional.

Founder's Statement

WADAP began because I tried to obtain and understand my own dental records.

What should have been a straightforward patient-record issue became, in my view, a much larger struggle involving delayed records, incomplete productions, unanswered requests, disputed documentation, regulatory frustration, litigation, and serious concerns about accountability.

My experience led me to believe that many patients may not know what to do when they cannot obtain complete records, cannot verify what happened, or believe their records are inaccurate, incomplete, altered, or being used against them without a fair opportunity to review and respond.

WADAP was created from that experience.

Its purpose is not only to document what happened to me, but to help build something useful for other patients.

Why Public Accountability Matters

Many patients experience dental care in isolation. They may not know whether a problem is unique, whether other patients have experienced similar conduct, whether a complaint process is meaningful, or whether there are practical steps they can take.

Public accountability allows patterns to be seen.

It allows patients to compare experiences, preserve information, ask better questions, and understand that record access and documentation are not minor administrative issues. They are central to patient safety, informed consent, continuity of care, legal rights, and professional accountability.

Fairness and Responsibility

WADAP is committed to responsible public discussion.

Patients should be able to speak truthfully about their own experiences. Providers and other involved persons should also have a fair opportunity to request corrections, provide context, or submit responses.

WADAP welcomes good-faith corrections, clarifications, documentation, and provider responses. If information on this site is inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or missing important context, it may be reviewed and updated where appropriate.

Important Notice

The content on this website reflects personal experience, opinions, records, correspondence, litigation filings, regulatory complaints, public materials, and reasonable inferences believed to arise from those materials.

Nothing on this website should be understood as a final judicial finding, regulatory finding, medical conclusion, dental conclusion, or legal determination unless specifically identified as such.

Providers, practices, corporations, individuals, agencies, and entities referenced on this site are presumed to dispute some or all allegations, concerns, interpretations, or conclusions unless they state otherwise.

This website is intended for patient education, public awareness, documentation, and accountability.

WADAP Mission

The mission of WADAP is to promote dental accountability, patient-record access, transparency, documentation integrity, and meaningful patient rights in Washington State.

WADAP exists to help change that.