Marek Olszewski Left Toothless After Breakup With Dentist Girlfriend

[brokenandtwisted]

Well, since they live in a large city I doubt she was the only dentist around, @Nell. If I was dating a dentist (NEVER would) and had a dental emergency shortly after dumping him, I would still go to him. Being of sound mind is a dating requirement for me!

We don't know the relationship in question. She could have been abusive to him, she could have been the culprit in this relationship. Unlikely, of course, but possible. She should receive a lengthy prison sentence, have her license revoked, and foot the bill for all necessary oral surgery.

Why would you go to your ex for anything? Ever? They are an ex for a reason.

Oh, ummm, gee, some of us are mature enough to remain friends with our exes? If I had an ex rush into the merge from a car accident, I wouldn't amputate all of his fuckin' limbs because he was an ex. Jesus, you lot are beyond fucked sometimes on this site. Let's see why this is so hilarious:

1. Psychologically traumatized.
2. Will be single for a while.
3. Can no longer eat solids.
4. Will effect prospective employment.
5. Financially difficult to regain said teeth (2k a tooth, 64k in total).

So funny! I am dying of laughter here! Where is that article on the woman being blinded by an acid attack by her ex? Where is that article about a man running his cheating wife over in a Wal-Mart parking lot? Where is that article about a woman putting her roommate's kitten in a microwave?! @Morbid needs to get a show on Comedy Central. Full of laughs here at the Demon.

[HeatherHabilatory]

This lady pulled all the teeth out of her ex's head, AND I'M the one who's fucked up in the head?

oookay,

[Bohring]

I think I would be asking the question to the woman (if the roles were reversed) - WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????

I'd be making jokes about blowjobs.

ETA: And I work at a university with a dental college. I'm going to hell for that distasteful joke.

[brokenandtwisted]

This lady pulled all the teeth out of her ex's head, AND I'M the one who's fucked up in the head?

oookay,

No. The story is (undeniably beyond) fucked. Your response/reaction is also fucked. No Boolean operator necessary.

[spinst]

My ex-boyfriend and I still travel together on occasion. Again in a few months, in fact!

We're insane.

Though if he were a dentist, and we had broken up two days earlier, I probably wouldn't have gone to him for a root canal.

Some things are just better left to those we have no deep emotional personal ties to.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A hugely popular news story about a jilted dentist accused of pulling out all her ex-boyfriend's teeth has unraveled as a hoax.

News Websites around the world ran the story last week about a woman in Poland named Anna Maćkowiak who took revenge on a man named Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic complaining of toothache, days after dumping her for another woman.
[...]

But when msnbc.com contacted police in Wroclaw, Poland, about the supposed criminal case, a spokesman said they had no record of such an incident.

"Lower Silesia Police Department has not been notified about such an event and is not investigating such a case," Pawel Petrykowski of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Wroclaw said in an email that was translated into English.

A legal adviser for Poland’s Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, which handles disciplinary matters, said the organization is not investigating and has never investigated any such case, and added that there is no dental practitioner named Anna Maćkowiak listed in Poland’s central register of dentists.

"No information about this kind of misconduct has been provided to the Supreme Chamber," the legal advisor, Marek Szewczyński, said in an email. "The Supreme Chamber is also not aware of any actions of this kind being taken by the Regional Chamber of Physicians and Dentists in Wroclaw, which would be the competent authority in case of a possible professional misconduct committed by a dental practitioner from Wroclaw."

Most online news outlets in Poland left the story alone.

Polish television news channel TVN4 published an article mocking foreign media's coverage of the story, which it speculates began as a prank. "It appears that the article, written as a joke, began life on the Internet and has little to do with any truth," the translated article reads.

All the news reports about Maćkowiak published on news Websites in the U.S. and elsewhere, such as Australia’s Herald Sun or New Zealand Herald, can be traced back to an article published in the online edition of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.

The article, which has been shared on Facebook more than 75,000 times since it was published on April 27, appears under the byline of staff reporter Simon Tomlinson.

But Tomlinson said he does not know where the story came from and distanced himself from it when questioned about its origins.
"I've drawn a bit of a blank," he said in an email. "The (Daily) Mail Foreign Service, which did the piece for the paper, is really just an umbrella term for copy put together from agencies. My news desk isn’t sure where exactly it came from."

The American Dental Association’s national spokesperson, David Johnson Jr., said the story of Maćkowiak’s revenge was highly improbable -- not just as an unprecedented abuse of the doctor-patient relationship but because most dentists are equipped to administer drugs only for conscious sedation dentistry. That would mean the ex-boyfriend would know his teeth were being extracted as it was happening, rather than realizing it after he arrived home.

"Patients are already fearful enough of going to the dentist," said Johnson, who has an oral surgery practice in Tennessee.
"It’s really concerning if anyone is delaying getting treatment because they think there is even a possibility that something like having all their teeth removed could ever happen."

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ood-to-be-true

[kniption]

Interesting timing on this...

I was considering writing up the Swiss cannibal story that was on DM and couldn't find ANYTHING - in ANY language - to back it up. I was also surprised to find that the name of the perpetrator was fully and exactly the same as the most decorated military pilot in world history.

It's weird, though... some of their coverage of US stories is top notch. What I am noticing, though, is that they often have pictures of cities or towns that are coming from mapping sites - not from news photographers. They also include information about other well documented cases with the stories that they have the least information about. It is classic persuasion by minutia.

I used to take what they posted as entertaining fact. What I have decided is that - while DM may be a good pointer to a story - they are a questionable source.