Dentist in Wuppertal: Process for deprivation of freedom starts today!

Dentist in Wuppertal: Process for deprivation of freedom starts today!

A dentist from Wuppertal faces serious allegations and has to face a court hearing at the Wuppertal district court on July 1, 2025. He is charged with deprivation of liberty and dangerous bodily harm. According to the n-tv reports, the dentist is said to have held a patient on the treatment chair at a critical moment than he wanted to cancel the treatment. "You are not going anywhere now, I'm doing it now!"

This incident not only includes deprivation of freedom, but also a dangerous bodily harm, since the dentist has cut an abscess in the mouth without the patient's consent. The post -treatment revealed that the wound was insufficiently cared for and had formed hematomas, which led to the patient's sustainable traumatization.

contaminated instruments and missing hygiene

But the charges do not stop here. After further investigations, it turned out that the dentist worked with contaminated instruments in his practice. He did not have the necessary equipment for proper cleaning and continued to use contaminated instruments despite a ban. This not only represents a threat to his patients, but is also an escape point for further legal consequences.

The legal details about deprivation of freedom are complex. In accordance with § 239 StGB, the law protects freedom of locomotion, i.e. everyone has the right to leave their whereabouts. While the legal view in the literature is increasingly differentiated, the principle remains that even if someone does not want them to move, they are still violated their freedom. Accordingly, there may also be a deprivation of freedom if the victim does not notice anything of the impairment, as is the case with sleeping persons JuraCademy.

questions about medical responsibility

The case also raises major questions about medical responsibility. Medical interventions, Section 224 of the Criminal Code (Section 224, must meet a medical indication, otherwise it is dangerous bodily harm. In earlier cases, it was discussed to what extent toothed extractions that are not medically necessary can be considered a dangerous bodily harm. The [Dental Wirtschafts] (https://www.dental-wirtschaft.de/rechundsteinen/zahnextraction-s- faehrliche-koerperwärzung-In- and-ihre-meaning-in-the-practice) emphasizes the need to comprehensively inform patients and to avoid effective consent.

The process promises to throw an insightful light on the practices in the dentist profession and to clarify the often misunderstood boundaries between medical duty and legal responsibility. While the legal disputes continue to go, the question of ethical responsibility remains: How far can a dentist go on behalf of the health care without violating the rights of its patients?