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  • 2012-05-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Dentist Pull Out All Her Ex-Boyfriend's Teeth? (en)
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  • On 27 April 2012, the Daily Mail published an article reminiscent of a 1995 Weekly World News article and a gender-switched version of the 1996 film The Dentist, reporting that a dentist in Poland had extracted all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman: The article went on to state that the dentist was being investigated for medical malpractice and could face three years in jail. The story of the vengeful dentist was picked up and reprinted by a number of U.S. news outlets, including Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, MSN, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News. However, many readers expressed skepticism about this report, and with good reason: it proved to be nothing more than a fabrication. On 2 May 2012, the Polish publication Gazeta Wroclawska noted that no dentist by the name of Anna Mackowiak was working in the city of Wroclaw, as stated in the original Daily Mail article. That same day, Polish television news channel TVN4 also reported that authorities in Wroclaw had no knowledge of a dentist by that name or any dental malpractice issue similar to the one described, and that the story was apparently an Internet joke with no basis in reality. MSNBC also investigated and found that no Polish authorities were aware of any such case: The Daily Mail reporter responsible for the story admitted he hadn't written it and professed to be unable to identify its origins: (en)
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