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A multi-millionaire dentist in France has been jailed for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighbourhoods of the southern city of Marseille, in a money-making scheme in which he performed thousands of unnecessary procedures.
Lionel Guedj, 41, was jailed for eight years and his father, Carnot Guedj, 70, who worked part-time for him, was jailed for five years after a court heard harrowing accounts of patients who had booked an appointment for minor issues such as a cavity or loose crown and were subjected to having scores of healthy teeth removed for no medical reason.
The state prosecution team described how Lionel Guedj deliberately harmed healthy patients from the northern quarters of Marseille in order to defraud the social security system. The court heard how he sought to make maximum profits by forcing unsuspecting patients to undergo unnecessary procedures, showing “total disdain” for their health and then reaping payments from the social security system.
