At the Lionel Guedj trial, which was the best-paid dentist in France, several testimonies detailed the drift of the northern neighborhood practitioner, which multiplied operations at an untenable rhythm.
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It’s nice to say that he did not take himself for the “Superman des Dentists”, that he was “neither the most beautiful nor the strongest”, before the Marseille Correctional Court judging it for Dental mutilations on nearly 350 of its patients, Lionel Guedj still boasts his talents, exercise speed, recourse to state-of-the-art hardware. Already, at the FAC, in e did he not replaced two dentists to him alone, “without assistance and by doing everything, from the household sterilization”?
Hosted at the opening of the trial, Monday, February 28, by a few insults from the banks of the very many civil parties, Lionel Guedj, 41, has made the choice to let go of the ballast. Although the exercise of contrition is staged by its defender M e Frédéric Soncreet, the former dentist of northern districts of Marseille became, in 2010, the most paid professional of the country, assured “Hear the suffering of patients”. Hair and beard, gray sweater on low waist jeans, Lionel Guedj makes the room grumble when he throws: “I was proud to heal people from northern neighborhoods, I have always done the best for my patients, I do not have have ever wanted to harm them. “
” Unintended errors “
“Three hundred people who suffer, it’s necessarily that there have been involuntary errors,” he says, thus setting his defense strategy: unusual therapeutic options, errors but not the deliberate choice of To devitalize healthy teeth to put bridges and prostheses, which, in the eyes of the Prosecution, is analyzed as voluntary violence that resulted in mutilation. For his former medical secretary, patients did not understand that the “Star Smile” promised by Lionel Guedj had for many mortification of many – sometimes all – their teeth. “They were advised to take a second opinion, they were told that what they were going to do was not innocuous,” she says in court.
Benoît Dobbels, his partner from 2005 to 2012 who shared the same benches since the class of 6 e , says that the waiting room was full of “Lionel” customers. An appointment every seventeen minutes when it reserved half-hour niches per patient. The assistant reported that Dr. Guedj did not disinfect the roots of the Dakin teeth during devitalizations. “He posed a lot of prostheses, and 80% of his turnover came from the prostheses activity, 20% of care, a ratio that surprised everyone. Me, it’s the reverse ratio,” he recognizes , embarrassed to overcome the old friend.
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