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posted by on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the band-name-of-the-week dept.

An Alaska dentist, Seth Lookhart, is being prosecuted on 17 counts of fraud and "unlawful dental acts." It's one of these alleged dental acts — Count XI — that has moved me.

Court papers filed this week say in or around July 2016, Lookhart "performed a dental extraction procedure on a sedated patient while riding a hoverboard and filmed the procedure and distributed the film to persons outside his dental practice."

[...] What if his hoverboard skills weren't perfect? What if he'd slipped at the vital moment as his tools were gripped around the patient's teeth? Please forgive me if I also mention that hoverboards have been known to explode and catch fire.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/dentist-accused-of-extracting-teeth-while-riding-hoverboard-alaska/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:27AM (#500544)

    There was a documentary on dentists in Canada. Every single one told the same person something different. I'd expect the same would be true in USA as well. Most dentistry is bullshit. Did you know you don't need toothpaste? Most of them have near zero net benefit and many actually cause harm.