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Fake dentist jailed for two years | Society | The Guardian

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"A bogus dentist, who treated more than 600 patients and made a career of lies, pain and botched treatments, was jailed for two years yesterday.

Omid Amidi-Mazaheri, 41, an asylum seeker who told immigration officers he had a dental practice in Iran, and his dentist girlfriend, Mogjan Azari, who first let him practise on her patients, are believed to have defrauded the NHS of more than £120,000 for work that was never done.

The Iranian national, who took a dead dentist's identity, repeatedly left patients in agony. He drilled without a local anaesthetic and did expensive fillings that crum bled within days, Southwark crown court, in south-east London, was told."

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