A 22-year-old Czech man and his parents posed as dentistry professionals and performed dozens of root canals and tooth fillings with the help of online tutorials.

Dental procedures can get really expensive, so finding a good deal is sometimes too good to pass up, especially when you’re in a lot of pain and low on funds, but cheap dental work can sometimes be too good to be true. Take, for example, the story of a family in Havlickuv Brod, a town about 100 kilometers southeast of Prague, in the Czech Republic, who posed as dentistry professionals for two years, performing cheap procedures in an unauthorized clinic, with no medical training and only online tutorials for guidance. They performed tooth extractions, local anesthesia, root canals, and tooth fillings on dozens of patients until they were finally discovered by police earlier this year.

read more