Freak of the Week

Our regular Weenie-Waver Wednesday feature is being folded into Freak of the Week, since I have to get out of here early to attend a boring seminar on workmen's compensation. There are two dental-themed stories this week (sorry Coaster Punchman, sorry Dale) and one interesting exhibitionist.

Here they are:

A Maine Dentist is trying to get her license back. She lost it for a number of reasons; was it the belly dancing costume, the booze-fueled office parties featuring naked boobies, or the botched oral surgeries? Who can tell...

A Singapore odd-job worker pled guilty to insulting a dentist's modesty: "While the dentist was scaling his teeth, he started making lewd remarks, moaning and groaning loudly while using his hands to caress his chest..."

I tried to find a mug shot of 60 year old Verle Peter Dills, but I failed. Mr. Dills was arrested after a neighbor complained about him lurking around his yard with a video camera and tripod. The police subsequently found "...the video camera and a “large amount” of 8mm and VHS video of Dills engaged in masturbation and sex acts with traffic signs near his home..."

Freak of the week

Recently Coaster Punchman and Dale have written, entertainingly and frighteningly, about dentists. Mob over at Dear Bastards has written of his ongoing dental torture.

Call me a kooky optimistic do-gooder, but I like to try and make my friends feel better whenever I can. Or at least I graciously, and without a hint of smug know-it-allness, point out that things could be far, far worse.

Which brings me to this week's FREAK OF THE WEEK:

British dentist Alan Hutchinson

Dr. Hutchinson is to dentists as Harvey Keitel was to lieutenants--bad. Bad and unclean:

Updated: 12:34 p.m. CT April 5, 2007

LONDON - A British dentist was found guilty on Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears.

A medical tribunal said it was satisfied the evidence showed 51-year-old Alan Hutchinson, who "routinely" did not wear gloves or wash his hands, had risked the health of "himself, staff and patients" for more than 28 years.

A dental nurse who worked for Hutchinson for 16 years said she had caught him urinating in the sink more than once.

"He was tucking something into his trousers before zipping them up hastily. I walked over and I was behind him. He moved to the left and I could smell urine," the nurse told the tribunal.

A later hearing will decide if the dentist's unhygienic habits impaired his ability to treat patients, and if so, whether he should banned from practicing.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.