[DiamondSmiles]

By Erin Tennant, Special to msnbc.com

A hugely popular news story about a jilted dentist accused of pulling out all her ex-boyfriend's teeth has unraveled as a hoax.

News websites around the world ran the story last week about a woman in Poland named Anna Maćkowiak who took revenge on a man named Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic complaining of toothache, days after dumping her for another woman.

Among the numerous U.S. news sites that picked up the story were Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, the New York Post, and The New York Daily News.

The story even included quotes from the scorned dentist and her toothless ex.

"I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions. But when I saw him lying there I just thought, "What a b******," Maćkowiak was quoted as saying.

Quotes attributed to the boyfriend victim meanwhile read: "I knew something was wrong because when I woke up I couldn’t feel any teeth ... When I got home I looked in the mirror and couldn't f******* believe it. The b**** had emptied my mouth."

Online news outlets also reported that his new girlfriend had left him because "she can’t be with a man without teeth."

The story claimed Maćkowiak is being investigated for medical malpractice and could face up to three years in jail.

But when msnbc.com contacted police in Wroclaw, Poland, about the supposed criminal case, a spokesman said they had no record of such an incident.

[DannyDrama]

I thought there was something strange about that, and I only saw the headline lol.

[Brometheus]

geeze.. i'm usually the one to scream "bullshit" first with good judgement, but this one i actually believed.. next thing we'll find out that nymphomaniac sexually assaulting men is a hoax.

[Wolf]

The tooth hurts...

[Robert440]

And too think i canceled a painfull tooth Rootcanal cause of this story!!!

[Pyramid_Head]

People suck, making hoax's really sucks!