A DENTAL patient promised the looks of a model was left with front teeth filed down to stubs, she claimed today.

Pat Diplock said she only went to John Kee Cho at the Bridges Dental Surgery in Weymouth for some simple cosmetic dentistry on a crack in one of her front teeth.

But Mrs Diplock, 54, of Belgrave, Weymouth, says she was left sobbing my heart out' and screaming with rage after both teeth were filed down to stubs.

Now Mr Kee Cho has been found guilty by the General Dental Council of professional misconduct with patients at the Bridges, Wyke Regis Health Centre and Weymouth Dental Practice.

One patient said he bungled an implant treatment so badly that she felt unable to face the outside world and had been left a hermit', too ashamed to answer the door to her own family.

Mrs Diplock contacted the Dorset Echo after reading about Mr Kee Cho, who had judgement postponed for a year by the council to show he could continue improvements he has made and improve his language and communication skills.

Mrs Diplock said: "All I went in for was cosmetic treatment similar to treatment I had had on the same teeth before. He gave me an injection which I thought strange because I hadn't had one before, but I just let him get on with it."

Then halfway through her treatment Mrs Diplock stopped Mr Kee Cho, jumped up and demanded to know what he had done to her.

She said: "He had filed my two front teeth down to stubs. When I saw what he had done I went mental. I was like a mad woman - hysterical is the word I would use.

"He showed me a book of how models looked. He said he could make me look like a model but I was so furious I threw the book at him.

"I just started crying and I don't think anybody there knew what to do. I was absolutely traumatised. I hadn't even been given the proper consent form to sign for the treatment."

Without really knowing what she was doing Mrs Diplock then got into her car and, still shaking and crying, somehow drove to a private dentist at Greenhill.

She said: "He agreed to see me and said he couldn't believe what had been done to me. I was sobbing my heart out."

Mrs Diplock said she did not take matters further at the time and had only come forward now because she read about Mr Kee Cho's misconduct hearing in the Echo.

She said: "Things will never be the same. When people look at you the first thing they see are your face, your mouth and your teeth."