California dentist says groping was part of treatment

[CreekDog]

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

(02-24) 10:26 PST Woodland, CA (AP) --

The attorney for a Woodland dentist told jurors that his client massaged women's chests as part of a medical treatment.

Defense attorney Michael Rothschild told the six-man, six-woman Yolo County jury that Mark Anderson was treating his female clients for temporomandibular disorder, or TMD. The attorney says the condition affects the muscles of the upper body.

Anderson faces 19 felony charges for skin-to-skin contact and one misdemeanor for touching a patient's breasts over her clothing. The incidents occurred between February 2005 and his arrest in August 2007 and brought complaints from 14 women.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/24/state/n102645S99.DTL

[HopeHoops]

1. I have a female dentist who is sort of hot. We're both married. I don't remember that treatment.

[Lost in CT]

2. Please go on.... nt

[HopeHoops]

5. Nah, I'm avoiding a checkup - I know it means "the drill".

[CreekDog]

13. you're married to your dentist?

well that's handy. :D

:hide: :evilgrin:

[TZ]

3. Mandibular=jaw.

Nothing to do with the chest area. Sure. LAMEST EXCUSE EVER.

[CreekDog]

6. Lame excuse, yes...but those muscles do connect to the chest

but i don't buy what the dentist said for a minute.

[MrCoffee]

4. So that whole "taint to tooth" procedure was a lie???

:cry:

[edbermac]

7. Fondling 101?

I didn't see that class listed in the Harvard Medical School brochure.

That's probably the only time I'd ever enjoy doing my homework. :evilgrin:

[rcrush]

8. Didnt this happen on Sienfeld that one time?

[CreekDog]

9. Maybe. If I were a dentist and I needed to do that, I would have them sign consent forms...

up the ying yang (oh shoot, that would be more forms :banghead:)

anyway or i might send them to someone else for the treatment. :think:

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. "See? 'Groping'. There it is, in the fine print."

Breast dentition is an issue of growing concern...

(Need I say: What a jerk.)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. And then he returned back to the Governor's Mansion and his wife Maria.

Ba-dump-dump!

[rcrush]

12. If anything could get me to go to the dentist.

Promises of groping will do it.