One would think that could be called assault. Considering she was incapacitated at the time and didn’t consent.
“One would think that could be called assault. Considering she was incapacitated at the time and didn’t consent.”
It definitely was not a “light-hearted prank” either, considering that she WASN’T “in” on the joke, even after the fact. He performed an unauthorized dental procedure on her, made her look like a pig, took pictures of her with tusks, then passed those pictures around behind her back to everyone else in the office. At the very least, he had to administer extra anesthesia in order to keep her under for the extra time required to glue the tusks in and then take them out. That in itself is dangerous.
I personally think that the dentist’s behavior is a sign of a disturbed person, especially since he never intended to show the pictures to the woman involved. The big fun of a complicated “prank” is the “pay-off” - when the victim of the prank is shown the handiwork, then invited to join in the joke. There is none of that here - just the malicious mockery of a person. One can almost hear the dentist and his staff, infantilistically sniggering in the corner while staring at their “secret photos”.
It makes one wonder what other “unauthorised procedures” he has committed and photographed while patients are under the knife...