• 10/4/2007
  • Coventry, England
  • Steve Evans
  • icCoventry.co.uk

A Nuneaton dentist faces being struck off the dental register after missing a patient’s mouth cancer.

Lutz Reinhardt, who lives in Haunchwood Road, Stockingford, had seven appointments with the patient over an 18-month period.

But, it is claimed, he ignored her fears about a growing red sore under her tongue.

The 54-year-old woman, known as Patient A, needed two operations and had part of her tongue removed after she was seen by another dentist who referred her for urgent hospital treatment.

Mr Reinhardt, who was practising at the Camp Hill Dental Practice in Camp Hill Road, Nuneaton, is appearing before the General Dental Council in London, where he admits failing to diagnose the lesion or advising the patient it could be malignant.