Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in Michigan
Dental Malpractice
My husband and I have been gong to a dentist and have much pain and frustration along with it. In December,2006 my husband had to hav 8 teeth pulled because of perodonal disease, two weeks later they decided that he needed to have his jawbones cut. Snce then he has had infections, mproper fit of a partial and much pain. I also have an improper fitting partial that has caused pain from the rubbing and I also have had infections and now an abcessed tooth. We can only eat soft foods and take medication from pain, now after the fact the dentist feels that he should go to an oral surgeon (which we cannot afford but could then because we had dental insurance at that time). He has constant bone fragments comming from his jaw because of the dentist improperly trimming the jaw. Do we have any kind of recourse? Pain for both of us is getting to be too much plus the embarresment of no teeth because we cannot wear our partials. Also at one point they harresed us constantly for the rest of the payment. They already have about $2,000 and we still owe about $800 which I refuse to pay until they can do something about our problems which so far nothing has been accomplished and situation keeps getting worse.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Dental Malpractice
Keep going back to the same dentist until you have nothing OR do something about it.
Hire local counsel and see if you can get a determination of dental malpractice.
The attorney will need to hire an expert willing to testify that there has been malpractice, and chances are you'll end up in mediation.
Dental Malpractice
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