I live in NY, when i was 14 I had a root canal done on a tooth my a dentist in the town I was living in at the time.....this past March I went for a regular checkup, keep in mind I have not been going to dentisits regularly since I was 18. At the checkup, they told me I had significant bone loss under this tooth and it appears that the root was perforated during the root canal. They told me an infection developed under there which caused the resorption of the bone and the tooth has to come out......Now here I am months later and almost 7 thousand dollars later in the process of getting the implant.....My question is, can I sue my previous dentist for screwing up my root canal for the 7000 it has cost me to fix it? If so, can I be awarded anything for pain and suffering?