- State is Florida
- A general dentist performed a root canal on my molar
- There was pain throughout procedure
- During the procedure, the dentist asks the assistant why she is wearing the inferior gloves. The assistant tells the dentist that management gave orders to save money. The dentist says she is a rebel and uses the more expensive ones anyway.
- After the procedure is complete, I am sent home and told it's done and everything is fine.
- As soon as the anesthesia wears off, I am in severe pain. The kind of pain when you have nerves in a tooth.
- My family calls the dentist and informs them, and I am told to return immediately, so we drive back there within 2 hours of having left
- The dentist now claims that the root canal was "never finished" because I was in pain because I had an infection, and so she just left it unfinished to let the antibiotics take care of it. She NEVER told me this earlier.
- She proceeds to go back to work and finish my root canal
- I still feel a root nerve in my tooth, seems she hasn't found it, and it's causing pain during procedure.
- She then informs me, that she has to tell me something. She broke off TWO separate files in two separate canals in the same tooth.
- She refills my tooth and wants to refer me to a root canal specialist to finish the job
- I am now in SEVERE pain again and she has to give me an injection of anesthesia directly into my mouth to calm it
- I am sent home. I am sitting here typing this while on Vicodin pain medication that she prescribed, but I am STILL in pain but not as much as before, but the root nerve pain is so strong it's going right through the vicodin. The vicodin is helping though.
I don't know what to do now. They are going to refer me to a root canal specialist but why do I have to pay for this? This is not my fault. And they have broken off two piece of equipment in my tooth and now I am still in pain. And they have been shady and unfair in their practice so far. They quoted one price to my family ($900) and then when I went to pay charged me $50 more ($950).
What should I do? Do I absolve the dentist of liability if I have a specialist fix this problem?
And I do NOT think it is fair for the dentist to simply pay for the specialist. What about my pain and wasted time? I have to waste another day sitting in a dentist chair, and I am suffering pain this whole time.
- A general dentist performed a root canal on my molar
- There was pain throughout procedure
- During the procedure, the dentist asks the assistant why she is wearing the inferior gloves. The assistant tells the dentist that management gave orders to save money. The dentist says she is a rebel and uses the more expensive ones anyway.
- After the procedure is complete, I am sent home and told it's done and everything is fine.
- As soon as the anesthesia wears off, I am in severe pain. The kind of pain when you have nerves in a tooth.
- My family calls the dentist and informs them, and I am told to return immediately, so we drive back there within 2 hours of having left
- The dentist now claims that the root canal was "never finished" because I was in pain because I had an infection, and so she just left it unfinished to let the antibiotics take care of it. She NEVER told me this earlier.
- She proceeds to go back to work and finish my root canal
- I still feel a root nerve in my tooth, seems she hasn't found it, and it's causing pain during procedure.
- She then informs me, that she has to tell me something. She broke off TWO separate files in two separate canals in the same tooth.
- She refills my tooth and wants to refer me to a root canal specialist to finish the job
- I am now in SEVERE pain again and she has to give me an injection of anesthesia directly into my mouth to calm it
- I am sent home. I am sitting here typing this while on Vicodin pain medication that she prescribed, but I am STILL in pain but not as much as before, but the root nerve pain is so strong it's going right through the vicodin. The vicodin is helping though.
I don't know what to do now. They are going to refer me to a root canal specialist but why do I have to pay for this? This is not my fault. And they have broken off two piece of equipment in my tooth and now I am still in pain. And they have been shady and unfair in their practice so far. They quoted one price to my family ($900) and then when I went to pay charged me $50 more ($950).
What should I do? Do I absolve the dentist of liability if I have a specialist fix this problem?
And I do NOT think it is fair for the dentist to simply pay for the specialist. What about my pain and wasted time? I have to waste another day sitting in a dentist chair, and I am suffering pain this whole time.
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