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Miami Dental Malpractice Attorney
Can a dentist or oral surgeon be sued for dental malpractice?
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
malpractice.
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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