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Dentist's slap heard in courtTOKYO (UPI) - TheOsaka High Court, reversing a lower court decision, ruled Friday that a dentist has no right to hit a child patient in the face to make him to open his mouth for treatment.Dentist Seichi Nakao, 30, of Kitakyushu in southern Japan, was fined $42 and handed a one-year suspended sentence for hitting a treatment-shy, 5-year-old boy whose parents later filed suit.The boy suffered facial cuts, the suit said.Nakao contended his act should be justified as a “necessary step to treat unwilling patients.
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Biddeford Sanford Journal Tribune

Biddeford, Maine, US

Fri, Dec 30, 1977

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