Fuming!!! Question regarding a bad dentist!

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Shep_Cobain

Shep_Cobain

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Hi guys,

My fiancé has been going to the same dentist since I met her and I have been going to my own.

Ever since I can remember she has had problems with the dentist hurting her teeth and is constantly having toothache!

She eats a healthy diet, very few sugary foods and no fizzy drinks. All her teeth are in excellent condition but she has always had an issue with one her her front tooth and constantly gets toothache. The dentist in question had given her several root canals on her tooth and killed the nerve! He has ended up ruining her tooth by drilling a huge hole in it and causing it to get it infected. She tried getting it sorted but the wait was too long. She tried seeing an emergency dentist as her face was swollen but they couldn't help her. She ended up joining my dentist and had to have her tooth completely filed down, filled and a cap placing on it. The new dentist said this might only be temporary but could work, but if the infection is worst than it looks the whole tooth may come out.

Two months later and we are just sat on the sofa eating our tea and her tooth comes out, snapped and the cap. The root is still inside but the tooth stinks and it's clearly still infected. The emergency dentist is now closed so there is nothing we can do but to date this has cost us a lot of money!!!

The last bill was £200 on NHS and god knows what costs from the old s*** dentist.

She is really self conscious as we go on holiday on Tuesday and it's one of her front teeth.

Would she have a case against her old dentist for malpractice? It was him who has drilled to far to her nerve, killed it, left a hole and caused an infection and refused to see her when she was in pain due to the infection.

Thanks
 
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mattyfez said:
If there was infection she should have been prescribed antibiotics by the dentist..
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I forgot to mention about this, she was prescribed them but the infection was too bad so they didn't clear up the inflection. He prescribed her a second course but the infection was too strong but he was too busy to see her!
 
I don't know what your options are, but when i was in a similar position a couple of years ago, the NHS refused to treat the tooth and only offered to remove it. A few trips to a private clinic, and almost £2000 later, i was able to keep the tooth with some extensive canal work. It was one of my rear molars, and the best £2k I've ever spent to keep my standard of living (e.g. ability to chew properly, since wisdom teeth were already gone).
 
If the infection was so bad that antibiotics didn't fix it then I don't know that much else could be done. I've always heard people are given antibiotics as the only thing that can be done until the infection clears. Surgery to remove an infection is rather invasive and involves removing lots of flesh - which would almost certainly mean the tooth would be lost.

It sounds as if the problem is the hole in the tooth. You'd need to find out if that was done badly or in error I guess. By the sounds of things though there were problems with the tooth and her dentist has made numerous attempts to fix it. With a front tooth a dentist will err on the side of caution, rather than do extra work.

My guess is that the dentist isn't in any way at fault, and you just want to find someone to blame.
 
Dont' put me off, I just got 4 teeth taken out today :o Hope nothing goes wrong. And also yeah, a few years ago i was on a see-saw and i slid off and the see-saw came back up and smashed my face. Ouch it hurt. Lost my upper left front tooth. It has literally tooken the NHS n' stuff five years to fix it, which is way too long in my book (may even be 6).

So yeah, i can't help but just wanted to say something as my whole face is all puffy still with all dem injections to numb.
 
ive had one bad tooth in my life , cracked it in an accident , it got filled , it got infected , i got antibiotics , it needed a root canal , it got infected , i got antibiotics , a bit of it fell off , it got filled , it got infected , it turned grey , theres now about 1/8 of the tooth left in my mouth and tbh im over it.

im just glad mine is at the back and i can only feel OPs GFs pain , except i cant feel the pain because my tooths dead and painless

id replace all my teeth with metal ones in a flash if i could
 
The Halk said:
If the infection was so bad that antibiotics didn't fix it then I don't know that much else could be done. I've always heard people are given antibiotics as the only thing that can be done until the infection clears. Surgery to remove an infection is rather invasive and involves removing lots of flesh - which would almost certainly mean the tooth would be lost.

It sounds as if the problem is the hole in the tooth. You'd need to find out if that was done badly or in error I guess. By the sounds of things though there were problems with the tooth and her dentist has made numerous attempts to fix it. With a front tooth a dentist will err on the side of caution, rather than do extra work.

My guess is that the dentist isn't in any way at fault, and you just want to find someone to blame.
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Antibiotics dont work on infections inside the tooth, or the bone around the tooth.
You either see if the pulp in the tooth heals itself, OR you drill in and remove it and fill it.
In the case of an abscess the only way to sort it is to drain it.

The OP sounds just typical of NHS dental work, they wont fill something unless your tooth is entirely rotten, they seemingly wont perform any preventative dental work these days.
AS for the nerve, If the tooth has had a lot of work on it, they keep going for a while but tend to just die, which leads to a lot of the pain.
 
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