Woman, 25, has ’15 HEALTHY teeth removed by dentist for NO reason’ leaving her in so much pain she can only eat liquids
Lawyer Anastasia Zimina, from Russia, says her love life has been destroyed by the grisly dental blunders
A "DENTIST from hell" is under criminal investigation after allegedly tearing 15 HEALTHY teeth out of a patient's mouth for no reason.
Three other patients are also suing the Russian orthopaedic dentist, after a fourth person, aged 43, won £70,000 in compensation after having 22 healthy teeth removed.
Lawyer Anastasia Zimina says her love life has been destroyed by the dental blunders.
Reports say dentist Dr Emma Kalmykova has vanished from St Petersburg after closing her practise when she lost a court case against patient Nina Chizhova, 43, which triggered a criminal probe.
Anastasia said: "Dr Kalmykova did my first check up and said my mouth joint problem was so serious I needed to urgently have implants.
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"Her forecast for my future was otherwise very grim.
"She said problems with this joint would spread elsewhere - and very soon I might be in a wheelchair."
Anastasia went to Dr Kalmykova soon after giving birth. On a TV show in Russia, she calmly took out her false teeth.
"I'm old sooner than I should be," she said. I'm doing this so other patients don't get into the same situation.
"I lost 15 teeth. When I felt something weird with my jaws, other dentists recommended me to go to Dr Kalmykova."
She diagnosed a dysfunction of the maxillofacial joint, a very complicated disease.
"She promised to give me back the possibility to eat, speak and live," said Anastasia. "Now I have no personal life because my false jaw always keeps me stressed. It moves, it might break, it might fall out.
"When I meet people for lunch, I have to order liquid foods.
Nina, meanwhile, claimed the dentist exerted an "hypnotic" effect on her. She was told she needed to have 22 teeth removed and replaced with implants.
When Nina later sued the dentist, experts called by the court said she had been given the wrong treatment.
Nina said: "She cut and depulped 22 teeth, and when time came to try the implants, they didn't fit. My mouth wouldn't shut, I was in agony from pain."
She won almost £70,000 from the court, the bulk of which was to pay for urgent treatment to rectify the mistakes she suffered.
"I wasn't looking for beauty, nor seeking Hollywood smile," she said.
She went to this dentist because the 40-year-old Kalmykova was highly recommended including by respected Orthopedic Denistry department of Mechnikov University.
"I was told to go to Dr Kalmykova, who was described as 'God for repairing mouth joint problems'."
She took a four year loan to pay for her treatment.
"She knows how to persuade people. Looking back, I see what she did, but when I was in the middle of the crisis, in pain, and with all these recommendations, I didn't feel cheated at the time."
Another patient is on antibiotics after treatment went wrong by the "dentist from hell";, said media reports in Russia.
The Russian Investigative Committee - likened to the FBI - said a criminal investigation had been opened against the dentist.
Interrogations had not begun because she had left the city and was believed to have fled to the Caucasus region of Russian where she had studied dentistry.
Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda contacted Dr Kalmykova who declined to comment.
Despite the court ruling and criminal case, a friend Alexander Baburov claimed she had been the victim of a media witch hunt in Russia. He denied she had "run away".
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