2023-11-15 23:00:00
The dentist and posturologist Gérard Dieuzaide, very involved in questions of electrohypersensitivity and chemosensitivity, was summoned this Thursday, November 16 by the Order of Dentists for having given “unproven advice” to a patient. Paradox: not only does the patient in question have nothing to reproach him for, but she hired a lawyer to come to her defense.
“Illegal practice of healing”… that’s how Gérard Dieuzaide, dental surgeon in Toulouse for 40 years, describes what he is accused of by the Council of the Order of Dental Surgeons. The exact qualification retained by the national disciplinary chamber of the order of dental surgeons, before which he appeared this Thursday, November 16 on appeal, is the dissemination of a new or insufficiently proven diagnosis or treatment.
In question, the help he provided to a patient, who came to consult him for symptoms close to fibromyalgia (joint pain, muscle pain, migraines, dizziness, fatigue, heaviness in the limbs, etc.) and which he thinks, in view of the tests he performs on her, that she is chimicosensible. “I did not perform any action, but only advised my patient to have the chemical resin tabs removed from her mouth,” underlines Dr Dieuzaide straight away.
A victimless conviction?
The patient had in fact started, shortly before the appearance of her symptoms, orthodontic treatment that she decides to interrupt following his consultation with Dr. Dieuzaide. In addition, it no longer pays the fees requested by the dentist responsible for the installation. This practitioner decides to file a complaint against Dr. Dieuzaide with the order of dental surgeons.
Dr. Dieuzaide’s recommendation of having the dental materials in question removed would have resulted in the patient’s rapid recovery, a recovery confirmed and described as “spectacular” by an independent expert (physiotherapist) who assessed the patient before and after removal. While the disciplinary chamber had refused at first instance an expert opinion on the patient’s condition both were able to testify to this effect this Thursday via their lawyers.
Sanctions for insufficiently proven diagnosis or treatment generally have a laudable objective: to prevent patients from suffering health damage as a result. of unsuitable treatment, or deviate from a recognized care protocol as effective for the benefit of one who is not. The first paradox here is that the patient declares not to have suffered any health damage, quite the contrary. The second is that there is no “proven” diagnosis or treatment to date for electro- or chemically sensitive patients. And for good reason: despite a timid and recent recognition by the public authorities of the existence of these pathologies, the understanding of their origins, their mechanisms of action and even more the solutions to provide them strongly divides the medical profession.
In its 2018 report on electrohypersensitivity, the Coves estimates that the latter would affect 5% of French people (approximately 3.3 million people), she recognizes that the ailments of which patients complain “correspond to a lived reality » and, despite the absence, according to ANSES, of proven causality with exposure to electromagnetic fields, the agency is calling for medical care and better training for health and social actors.
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Delay in research and therapeutic wandering
However, on the ground, almost nothing happens: the disease is still not taken care of or even fully recognized by the medical profession, nor are its diagnostic criteria. Both research and support for patients often come from civil society. We are thinking in particular of the creation in 2022 of Ariem (association for international research on EHS and MCS) to encourage research, and the work of supporting patients carried out by a handful of associations and a few rare health professionals like Dr. Dieuzaide. This is undoubtedly what earned him the support of three associations of electrosensitive and chemically sensitive people who have hired a lawyer and also wish to be able to testify in his favor: the White Zones associationchaired by MEP Michèle Rivasi,the Robin des Toits association and the association of chemically sensitive people SOS-MCS.
« I have written five books. I am criticized for the fact that what I write is not consistent with scientific findings, but the data acquired from science is evolving and there should be more studies on the subject. » pleads Dr. Dieuzaide before his summons before the disciplinary chamber. Then he adds: « For example, two years ago I sent letters to the 16 deans of French surgical and dental universities to raise their awareness of the issue and never received a single response… When I went to see Anses with a patient association, I was asked to set up a scientific study to prove the effectiveness of my approach, but that is not my job… I would simply like them to come and spend two days with me to understand these phenomena. What I do provides monumental service, which many healthcare professionals and my patients confirm. ».
In a context where these pathologies are still not taken care of today, or very poorly, the order of dentists will therefore have to rule on practices which, if they can be considered by some as singular or disconcerting, nevertheless seem in the practice of being able to help patients often in therapeutic wandering. His lawyer, Master Arnaud Durand, hopes to convince the Council of the order, in particular by highlighting dozens of positive testimonials from patients, but also from numerous doctors who have referred patients to Dr. Dieuzaide.
« There is the virtual and the real…and the real is people in suffering. Should we leave them like that, telling them it’s psychosomatic and sending them home with anxiolytics? » asks Dr Dieuzaide, before concluding on the subject of his summons: “I would like to establish a dialogue with the health authorities, to show them that what I do can be of service.”
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