Lionel Guedj and his father, Carnot Gedej, will appear on February 28 in the Marseille court. They are accused of having fraudulently enriched by practicing unjustified and sloping operations, which mutilated hundreds of patients.
Le Monde with AFP
He promised a “Star Smile”: Lionel Guedj, 41, will be judged on Monday, February 28 with Carnot Gedj, 70, also dentist, as well as their two companies as legal persons, for “voluntary violence that resulted in a mutilation or permanent infirmity “and” scam “.
The two men, also pursued for “use” and “complicity” of “false in private writing” incurs ten years of imprisonment and 375 000 euros fine; An amount that could rise to nearly two million euros for their societies, not to mention the compensation of the many victims.
Abcess, pains, repetitive infections, black mouth, bad breath, prostheses that do not hold: ten years after the facts incriminated – from 2009 to 2012 -, many former patients still undergo disorders, testifies Marc-André Ceccaldi, lawyer of several complainants. “Eighty-one percent of the victims are modest people, often beneficiaries of the complementary universal health coverage: Lionel Guedj promised them a star smile, today, we talk about” Smiling Guedj “, to evoke pounded teeth “He says.
“My client will endeavor to show that, if there has probably been negligence or imprudence, he never had the will to harm”, “said Lionel Guedj lawyer, Frédéric Sorrow , which specifies that his client is “delighted to finally be able to explain”, but “stressed by the trial issues”.
In total, 322 former patients formed civil, alongside the Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) Bouches-du-Rhône, five mutuals and the National and Departmental Council of the Order of the Order of Dental surgeons. This non-standard trial will be held until April 8 in a 400-seater room specially furnished in a former barracks.
Falsified radios and sloping operations
The case begins in 2009 with a survey of the medical control of the Bouches-du-Rhône CPAM as a result of the reports of an insurance on dubious invoications of prostheses, and social insured on “abuse of care “.
A complaint from CPAM 13, which claims a prejudice of nearly 1.7 million euros, is filed in 2011. Judicial information is open in 2012. indicted, the two men are left free under judicial review. They have since been forbidden to exercise by the order of dentists.
The conclusions of the administrative investigation, supported by several expertise and the hearing of 170 patients, describe an organized system aimed at achieving “maximum denture prostheses benefiting from tariff freedom”. According to several witnesses, “the tandem father-son was clearly directed by Lionel Guedj”.
“The first consultation systematically resulted in a massive work program involving devitalizing and crowning a maximum of teeth”, notes the report, which evokes “strong presumptions of voluntary degradation of healthy teeth”. “You come for two caries and you left with all the devitalized teeth,” said Dental Assistant, Nadia Omar.
Turnover of 2.6 million euros
Lionel GuDJ charged 28 times more crowns than the average of his colleagues, counted a dentist Consultancy of Health. In 2010, he was at the top of dentists in France with a turnover of 2.6 million euros, against a departmental average of 180,000 euros. The man was formed in a few years a real estate heritage of 9.5 million euros, had luxury cars, a yacht 15 meters …
In front of the investigators, Lionel Guedj justified his success through important work schedules and exceptional speed. But for social security, such results in a normal activity would have requested no less than 52 hours of work per day.
Dr. Guedj would have sprung up on the quality of care, realizing, for example, “the final dental prosthesis pose, without any fitness”, while this act requires no less than five different stages. Justice also criticizes dentists the disappearance or falsification of radios, to try to conceal false diagnosis.