He may say that he did not take himself for the “Dentist’s Superman”that he was not “neither the most beautiful nor the strongest”, before the criminal court of Marseilles which judges him for dental mutilations on nearly 350 of his patients, Lionel Guedj still praises his talents, his speed of exercise, his use of state-of-the-art equipment. Already, in college, in 5e year, had he not replaced two dentists on his own, “without assistance and doing everything from sterilization to cleaning” ?
Welcomed at the opening of the trial, Monday, February 28, by a few insults sprung from the benches of the very many civil parties, Lionel Guedj, 41, made the choice to let go of ballast. Even if the exercise of contrition is staged by its defender Me Frédéric Monneret, the former dentist from the northern districts of Marseille who, in 2010, became the highest paid professional in the country, assured “hear the suffering of patients”. Close-cropped hair and beard, gray sweater over low-rise jeans, Lionel Guedj makes the audience groan when he launches: “I was proud to treat people in the northern districts, I always did the best for my patients, I never wanted to harm them. »
“Unintentional Mistakes”
“Three hundred people who suffer, it is necessarily that there were involuntary errors”, he said, thus fixing his defense strategy: ill-advised therapeutic options, errors but not the deliberate choice to devitalize healthy teeth to place bridges and prostheses, which, in the eyes of the prosecution, analysis as willful violence resulting in mutilation. For his former medical secretary, patients did not understand that the “star smile” promised by Lionel Guedj had the reverse of the mortification of many – sometimes all – of their teeth. “We advised them to take a second opinion, they were told that what they were going to do was not trivial”she told the court.
Benoît Dobbels, his partner from 2005 to 2012 who has shared the same benches since the class of 6esays that the waiting room was full of customers from « Lionel ». An appointment every ten to fifteen minutes when he reserved slots of half an hour per patient. The assistant told her that Doctor Guedj did not disinfect the roots of the teeth with Dakin during root canals. “He placed a lot of prostheses, and 80% of his turnover came from the prostheses activity, 20% from care, a ratio that surprised everyone. Me, it’s the inverse ratio “he admits, embarrassed to overwhelm the former friend.
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