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Convicted dentist in Alaska
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You can hardly imagine the scene more bizarre: In the US state of Alaska, a dentist pulled a tooth from a sedated patient while he was balancing on a hoverboard.
Now the man has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for questionable treatment methods and fraud.
The doctor sent a video of the incident to friends.
It also showed how he drove away on the floating board after the operation and threw his arms up in triumph, as can also be seen in a report on the station KTUU from Alaska.
The hoverboard incident wasn't the doctor's worst offense, said Michael Wolverton, Anchorage Supreme Court judge.
He "almost killed many patients" because he had performed thousands of anesthesia "without specialist training or consent".
"What you did was narcissistic and insane."
In addition, some patients woke up after the treatment and found that the dentist had worked on the wrong tooth or pulled the wrong tooth, as reported by CNN.
In addition, the man had embezzled millions of euros from a government health care program.
The doctor admitted that he should have shown more "discipline and concentration".
"In retrospect, I can not say exactly when I began to deviate from course," CNN quoted the convicted doctor as saying.
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