Dentist ‘had no idea his mistress was a patient’

A married dentist who had affair with a woman he met on a dating website claimed he had no idea she was one of his patients, a tribunal heard. Richard Pym, who practiced at the Church Lane Dental Practice, in Harpurhey, Manchester, met the woman online in March 2015. The pair exchanged steamy texts and WhatsApp messages before he realised he had treated her in the dentist’s chair. But Pym carried on with the exchanges and struck up a sexual…