Dental Malpractice

People typically do not enjoy visiting the dentist. The mouth is a very sensitive part of the body that feels pain easily and is rather important. Whether a person is going in for a root canal, a crown, a complicated oral surgery, or a basic cleaning, people associate pain with the experience. Still, people trust their oral health to dentists and expect that their teeth will be cared for adequately.

Unfortunately, as in all health professions, accidents do happen. Most people think of malpractice in terms of what a physician, or health professional like a dentist in this case, do to cause harm to a patient. While this can include things like permanently injuring a tongue nerve during a surgery or crafting a defective oral device that causes costly and painful complications, a dentist can do a lot of damage to a person’s mouth and teeth.

Another way in which a dentist can cause harm is by failing to detect something wrong with or in a patient’s mouth. A dentist is in the unique position of being able to look into a person’s mouth and take note of excessive dental decay or perhaps something more sinister.

A dentist is responsible for conducting an oral exam to determine if there is evidence of oral cancer. Oral cancer is a tricky disease in that, when caught early, it can be taken care of before it spreads to other parts of the body. Dentists who miss oral cancer can subject their patients to far more cancer treatment than if the cancer had caught early.

Contact a Madison Dental Malpractice Lawyer

If you have been injured by a dentist’s malpractice or negligence, contact the Madison dental malpractice lawyers of Habush Habush & Rottier, S.C. at 800-242-2874 to discuss your situation and to determine your legal options.