Orlando, FL Dental MalpracticeAttorney
Can a dentist or oral surgeon be sued?
Yes. Dentists and oral surgeons are considered health care professionals
and must provide a certain standard of care when providing dental
services to a patient. Just like medical doctors, dentists and oral
surgeons have a duty to uphold that standard of care in his/her
specialty. A breach of this duty, resulting in injury to a patient
can result in what is generally referred to as dental negligence.
Some types of injuries caused by dental malpractice include permanent
or temporary nerve and/or structural injuries to the tongue, jaw,
chin and lips including lingual nerve injury (tongue), inferior
alveolar nerve damage (lips, chin and jaw), numbness, loss of taste
sensation and even death. These injuries can be caused by: negligently
administered anesthesia or pre-medication, improper removal of impacted
wisdom teeth and other negligence in the administration of dental
procedures.
Dental malpractice cases are as expensive and difficult to try as
medical malpractice cases, so our firm believes a serious permanent
injury is needed to justify and merit bringing a dental negligence
case. Serious dental injury cases our firm has been involved in
include lingual and inferior alveolar nerve injuries and antibiotic
or pre-medication errors. As with medical and birth injuries, our
firm ends up turning down far more of these cases than we can take.
If your dental treatment has been sub-standard our aim is to obtain
maximum compensation for you as quickly as possible and only to
take cases we feel we can win.
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