Too big for dentist chair

DENTISTS are being told not to treat extremely heavy patients for fear of getting sued.

Patients weighing more than 127kg should be sent to specialist clinics, dentists are being warned, unless their clinics have dental chairs specially designed to bear heavier people.

Rupert Hoppenbrouwers, former head of the UK’s Dental Defence Union, which indemnifies dentists, warned that if dentists did refuse to treat an obese patient in these circumstances then they might be open to accusations of discrimination.