Pediatric dentist faces backlash after laughing gas joke at GOP gala

A Santa Clarita pediatric dentist is facing a wave of online criticism and review-bombing after a resurfaced video from a 2021 Republican gala showed her joking that she withholds laughing gas from patients who do not share her political views. The clip, originally posted to TikTok and later screen-recorded and shared on X, captured Dr. Harleen Grewal of Skyline Smiles making the remarks during a speech at the Republican Liberty Gala and has since prompted dozens of one-star Yelp reviews and calls for regulatory scrutiny.

In the video, Grewal appears to laugh as she says, I have a secret hat I use sometimes. It says, Make your smile great again. I wear that when I work with my patients, so when they look horrified or complain, I quietly cut back on the laughing gas, and say, You got this. Its not as bad as you think it is. She also joked about preferring when liberals stayed home during the COVID pandemic. The original TikTok has been deleted, but recorded versions and reaction posts continue to circulate online.

The resurfacing of the clip led many users to criticize Grewal publicly and to flood the Skyline Smiles Yelp page with negative reviews. One reviewer wrote that dental...