Florida dentist charged with assaulting 85 year old patient.

MAY 25- A Florida dentist is facing assault and battery charges after he allegedly tussled yesterday with an 85-year-old patient over her dentures, police report.
According to cops, Michael Hammonds, 57, was attempting to adjust Virginia Graham’s “lower partial dentures” when the senior citizen “began screaming” due to pain caused by the ill-fitting false teeth.

“Graham removed the partials from her mouth and threw them at Hammonds, which he caught,” according to a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office report.

When Hammonds refused Graham’s demand for a $900 refund, she tried to snatch the dentures from the dentist’s hand, prompting a “brief tug-of-war.” At that point, “Graham then bent down and bit Hammonds hand forcing him to let go of the partial.”
Graham then got out of the operating chair and sought to leave Hammonds’s Deltona office. But the dentist “got in her face and began screaming at her, causing her to fear that he would potentially cause her harm,” investigators reported. Graham told deputies that Hammonds physically kept her from leaving his office. She “made one final attempt to leave by trying to climb over the receptionist desk and out the receptionists window,” but abandoned that bid in order to avoid injury. Sheriff’s deputies observed “multiple bruising” on Graham’s upper arms and forearms, and her “left upper arm was bleeding due to her skin tearing when Hammonds grabbed her arm.”
Investigators--citing the “totality of the circumstances of Graham being 85 years of age” and “Hammonds depriving her the free will” to leave the office--arrested the dentist on a variety of felony charges, including assault, battery, and false imprisonment.
Hammonds was booked yesterday afternoon into the Volusia County jail, and later released after posting $4000 bond.

Why was the dentist charged here? It sounds to me like they were both at fault. If he's going to jail, she should be too. Sure he held her against her will and roughed her up a bit, but that was only after she threw her teeth at him then bit him. Wait, how the fuck did she bite him without her teeth? Regardless of that, I would give anything to see footage of an 85 year old woman trying to climb over the receptionist's desk and out the window. Like how far did she get before she gave up? I doubt she even got one leg up on the desk.

Grandma should just relax and drop the charges. Things got a little out of hand with the dentist, but you can't really blame him. Being a dentist must suck ass. Sure you make a decent living, but you have to put your hands in other people's mouth's all day. That is fucking disgusting. The only job in the medical field grosser than that is being a proctologist. And that's only slightly worse. In most cases, asshole's smell worse than bad breath, but people don't talk and breathe out of their assholes (at least not literally), so it's not like that stink is constantly being blown into your face like it is when you are a dentist. Plus people always hate going to the dentist, probably even more than a visit to the proctologist, so you are constantly dealing with patients that act like pricks. When you really think about what it must be like to be a dentist, you start to understand why slapping around an old lady once in a while shouldn't be made into such a big deal.