EAST WINDSOR — A 47-year-old township man was arrested Monday on charges he was running an unlicensed dentist's office out of his Brookwood Gardens apartment, police said.

Andriy Makaruha has no dental license or medical training, yet police said he had converted his apartment on Hickory Corner Road into a makeshift practice for treating patients.

“There was a reclining office chair set up in the kitchen, behind the little sort of privacy barrier,” Lt. Richard Bernstein said. “And there was a large amount of tools like you’d find in a dentist’s office all around.”

Makaruha had been operating for two months, police said. Detectives are in the process of interviewing his apparent patients to determine if additional charges should be filed.

"We don't have the information yet that he's harmed anyone," Bernstein said.

Police had not received any previous complaints about Makaruha or his alleged illegal dentistry, and say the offenses were discovered when a township inspector was conducting routine apartment inspections Monday morning, Bernstein said.

The inspector was told about Makaruha’s operation from someone in the apartment complex and alerted police. Makaruha cooperated with the probe and gave consent to search his apartment, police said.

“He had, to a layman, the same kind of tools you would see at your dentist’s office,” said Bernstein, who briefly toured the apartment on Monday.

Makaruha treated people and took payment for work he performed, but there was no mistaking the place as a legitimate medical office, Bernstein said.

“It was an apartment with dental equipment in it,” he said.

Makaruha was arrested and charged with practicing dentistry without a license, possession of hypodermic syringes, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance for the local anesthetic articaine. He posted a $10,000 bail and was released pending court.

The case remains under investigation, with further narcotics charges pending. Detectives need to identify what the various chemicals and anesthetics are before they can charge Makaruha with any offense.

Makaruha told detectives he lived in the apartment alone. Public records show another address for Makaruha in Jamesburg, but repeated calls to the phone number there went unanswered.

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