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An American dentist who extracted a tooth from a sedated
patient while balancing on a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12
years in jail for crimes including illegal dentistry, fraud and
reckless endangerment.
Seth Lookhart, 35, sent phone footage to friends that showed him
taking a patient’s tooth out while standing on the two-wheeled
hoverboard before riding away as he stripped off his gloves and
held his hands up in triumph.
The Alaska State Department of Law said that Anchorage Superior
Court Judge Michael Wolverton stressed that the hoverboard incident
was not the most serious aspect of the case.
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“Lookhart almost killed many patients by performing anesthesia
thousands of times without training or consent, on patients outside
his scope of training and expertise, while stealing money from
Medicaid and embezzling from his bosses,” the state said in a
statement.
CNN in a report published Friday quoted Lookhart as saying
“looking back, I can’t say exactly when I began to go off
course.
“I could have and should have maintained better discipline and
focus.”
Prosecutors asked the court to order Lookhart to pay back more
than $2 million embezzled from state health funds.
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