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French dentist jailed for mutilating patients with unnecessary work

Lionel Guedj, right, arriving at court with his father, Carnot, in Marseille before they were jailed.
Lionel Guedj, right, arriving at court with his father, Carnot, in Marseille before they were jailed. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images

A multi-millionaire dentist in France has been jailed for deliberately mutilating patients from low-income neighbourhoods 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 ended up having scores of healthy teeth removed for no medical reason.

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