Our client brought a claim against her former dentist for negligent dental treatment. She had suffered problems with the tooth when she was a child and in 2008 the tooth became painful.
When she attended her dentist, he failed to conduct a proper examination and diagnose that the tooth was infected and needed to be extracted.
Our client persevered with the pain in her tooth for several weeks before returning to her dentist who told her that she needed an apicectomy, which is a surgical procedure to treat the infection. This was not a pleasant experience.
Our client then saw a different dentist who advised that the tooth did not have any hope of recovering and should have been extracted. Not only this, but the apicectomy had been carried out poorly.
Although the tooth would have needed extracting in any event, the claim was based on the fact that our client suffered a period of unnecessary pain until the infection was diagnosed and then the pain and cost of an apicectomy (which was not required as the tooth needed removing anyway). Our client received £3,000 by way of compensation.
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