the trial of “dentists-butchers” opens Monday, February 28

Ten years of suffering, repeated abscesses and teeth damaged by the failed intervention of a practitioner: today, like the rest of his family, Aklim Belaïd still has serious consequences. “I’m desperate, because I can’t afford to have my teeth redone. I can not. I don’t laugh like I used to, I’m not like I used to, I find myself very nervous“, he laments. The alleged responsible is Lionel Guedj, nicknamed the “dentist butcher”, suspected of having mutilated nearly 500 patients between 2006 and 2012 in the northern districts of Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhone). He was struck off in 2016. His lawyer recognizes negligence, but no intention to harm.

Negligence, of which Marielle Orci would also have been a victim. Came for a simple whitening, several of her teeth have summer ripped off. Worried about persistent pain after her operation, she went to see another dentist, in vain, “She took everything away from me with the chisel and the hammer. She gave me prostheses that didn’t hold. I no longer ate, I no longer had a social life“, she explains. A “health scandal“, according to the lawyer for the civil parties. He regrets that no structure has been put in place to help the victims. The victims are waiting for compensation for the damage.