A six-year-old girl was left screaming with 'blood everywhere' when a dentist pulled out the wrong teeth, a hearing was told.

The youngster was teased at school and refused to smile after the blunder at the hands of Branko Krstic, the General Dental Council (GDC) heard.

Krstic, of Monreepos, Rodmell, Lewes, is accused of wrongly pulling out the girl's four upper front teeth, then altering paperwork in a bid to cover his mistake.

He told the girl's mother that the teeth were 'blowing in the wind' and they had to be removed despite his instructions to extract only her four lower teeth, it was said.

The girl had been referred by her own dentist to the Crown Court Dental Anaesthetic Clinic at High St, Rochester, Kent.

Her mother was taken to the recovery room and was horrified by the sight of her daughter.

The woman, referred to as Miss A, told the panel: "My daughter was lying on the bed, there was blood everywhere, she was crying and screaming with her hands in her mouth.

"Somebody said to me 'We've noticed her bottom teeth are overcrowded, would you like us to take those out now?' 'It was then the penny dropped. I said 'You've pulled the wrong teeth out', to which they replied, 'No we haven't, it's what's on the form.'"

Miss A said she asked to see the referral form from her own dentist.

Krstic left the room for two minutes and then came back with the paperwork.

Miss A said: "He handed it out and then explained 'Look, it's these teeth'."

Krstic added: "It's your dentist's fault, you've got to go and see her."

Miss A continued: "At that point they were arguing amongst themselves quite loudly."

"I was really angry to say the least.

"When I pointed out the wrong teeth had been pulled out I was told it doesn't matter, they will grow back, they were blowing in the wind.

"That says to me they were hanging from threads dingly dangling out of her mouth which they weren't.

"Someone said the teeth had been damaged in a traumatic event.

"She didn't have a traumatic event."

Miss A said she took her daughter and went straight to her usual dentist, the Milton Regis Dental Practise in Sittingbourne, Kent.

The staff showed her the referral form sent to the Crown Court clinic.

Miss A said: "When I put the two together they didn't match, they were completely different.

"Somebody had drawn little lines in the boxes and added extra letters on either side of the original."

Miss A said the loss of the four front teeth effected her daughter emotionally.

She went on: "She wouldn't smile. She was teased at school.

"She had a general lack of confidence and trust in me."

Ian Stern QC, for the GDC, said a handwriting expert would explain to the committee how Krstic had a distinctive way of writing the letters B, U and R that proves he had altered the form.

Mr Stern said they would be made available to the panel to examine as part of the case.

Krstic is attending the central London hearing.

He admits extracting patient A's four upper teeth and carrying out fillings to three others on September 21 2005.

Krstic denies adding the letters B, U and R in the teeth extraction box on the 'Treatment Required' referral form.

He denies failing to following the instructions of the referral form and failing to examine patient A's teeth adequately.

The dentist further denies failing to get Miss A's informed consent and not acting in the best interests of patient A.

Krstic denies his actions were dishonest, designed to mislead and designed to place the blame on another practitioner.

The hearing continues.