If Dentist Messed the Crown Do I Pay for It Again

Dr. Hall,
In Nov 2009 I had a crown put on my number eight front molar. My molar was slanted from sucking my thumb when I was little, and this was to fix that.

Nigh iii weeks after my crown was put on my tooth was actually sensitive to hot and common cold. I was told that was normal for the commencement few weeks. Nigh iv months later my tooth was hurting then bad that I had to go to the ER! The next 24-hour interval my confront swelled up and I was out of work for 5 days. When I went to another dentist, they told me that my tooth was infected and that I would need a root canal and a new crown. I was similar WHAT??? how could this happen? She told me that I had an open margin and it was from the crown not being placed properly.

I called the kickoff dentist, who did the crown, and I told the secretary the situation. I told her that i deserved my money back because for his mistake i have to pay for another crown and a root canal!! she said that once the crown was in my mouth information technology was my responsibility!! I said even if information technology was a failed job???

Is he liable for this? Shouldnt he pay?? I have seen the xray and the open margin is huge! ! If he nosotros re to have taken xrays at the end of the task he would accept seen the open margin and knew it had to be redone.

At the time I was making payments on the crown and paid a picayune more than half. After I plant out about his error i told the role i was non paying the balance . Well-nigh three months after I got a detect proverb he was suing me for the residuum! I couldnt believe it ! I of course filled a countersuit and when I went to the small claims courtroom his lawyer told me if i driblet the counter claim then the dentist would "forgive my debit". I said NO I desire the money that I paid him and his lawyer said "Well he is not willing to practice that." The case now has to be handled by the superior court because ceremonious courtroom tin't bargain with things similar this.

My question is should this guy accept stock-still his fault? Because of him I was in the most extreme pain I was e'er in, I had to miss days of work, I had virtually a dozen appointments ( emergency room, doctors and dentist visits), my face swelled up so bad that I could barely see and I had to go a new crown and a root culvert . Please let me know what you think!

Cheers!
– Sarah from Massachusetts

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Sarah,
You lot have quite the story!

I have to qualify this because I tin can't estimate this without seeing. But just going from what yous're telling me, yeah, your former dentist is liable for violating the standard of care. The most important matter to cheque when a new crown is being seated on a tooth is to run the explorer around the margins and make sure there is a proficient fit to the crown. Usually a dentist won't take an ten-ray before seating a crown, but they always need to run that explorer completely effectually the margins of the crown and check for any open margins. But having the x-ray yous have is skilful documentation showing his negligence.

The problem, though, in many cases like this is that the dollar amounts involved make it impractical to involve lawyers and to go to trial. But here are a couple of things you lot tin practice to increase the pressure on this dentist to refund your money:

1. Threaten to mutter to the dental board. Not as serious as a malpractice adapt, this is still something that the dentist is strongly motivated to avert.
2. Have the new dentist help you lot. A telephone call from ane dentist to another, verifying that in that location was indeed a trouble with the work, tin can be very persuasive. In a trial, you Take to have an expert opinion of a dentist to back up any merits of negligence. Your word isn't good enough.
3. Have a lawyer write a threatening letter of the alphabet. Rather than pay for an entire malpractice case, just having a letter from an attorney can go the dentist to take your complaint more seriously.

Dr. Hall

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