Violated...

[Narjett]

What is the name of your state? Georgia

I am working on getting braces, and have needed to have a lot of dental work done. On last Thursday, I went to see the dentist for some cavities to be filled. I've been going to her diligently since March and I do not have dental insurance and have been paying out of pocket. On last Thursday, she claims to have noticed a tooth which was going to need a root canal. She mentioned it while doing the other fillings, she never showed it to me on x-ray, and proceeded without my permission to do the root canal. Once again, I am paying out of pocket. At that time I did not pay her for the entire services rendered, because I had to come back this week to have the remainder of the procedure finished. The week before last, she was filling cavaties on the right upper side of my mouth (#2, 4, 6) and she said tooth #5 needed a filling, and once again proceeded to fill it without my consent. Where is tooth #5 any way? I paid for those services; and I still don't know if that tooth even needed a filling, because once again, she didn't show me on x-ray.

Also, I believe I am being over charged for all the services rendered. Is there a standard ADA rate, or is the sky the limit with private dental practices. For example, I had some scaling done, it cost me over $1000 dollars, and I am hearing from others who go to the dentist that they have paid on average no more than $185 per quadrant --standard rate, before insurance.

I don't want to go back to her. I have a root canal that is not finished, plus it will need a crown, all of which I can not afford; and don't even know if I really needed. I need some help and answers ASAP. I am scheduled to go back and see her on Thursday (5/18) and I need to know my rights.

This is why I do not go to the dentists. You think you can trust them, and then they pull fast ones on you. To date, I have spent approximately $3000 at the dentist office.

I'm only 26 years old, and feel as if I've been violated.


HELP ME!!!!!

[seniorjudge]

Originally Posted by Narjett

What is the name of your state? Georgia

I am working on getting braces, and have needed to have a lot of dental work done. On last Thursday, I went to see the dentist for some cavities to be filled. I've been going to her diligently since March and I do not have dental insurance and have been paying out of pocket. On last Thursday, she claims to have noticed a tooth which was going to need a root canal. She mentioned it while doing the other fillings, she never showed it to me on x-ray, and proceeded without my permission to do the root canal. Once again, I am paying out of pocket. At that time I did not pay her for the entire services rendered, because I had to come back this week to have the remainder of the procedure finished. The week before last, she was filling cavaties on the right upper side of my mouth (#2, 4, 6) and she said tooth #5 needed a filling, and once again proceeded to fill it without my consent. Where is tooth #5 any way? I paid for those services; and I still don't know if that tooth even needed a filling, because once again, she didn't show me on x-ray.

Also, I believe I am being over charged for all the services rendered. Is there a standard ADA rate, or is the sky the limit with private dental practices. For example, I had some scaling done, it cost me over $1000 dollars, and I am hearing from others who go to the dentist that they have paid on average no more than $185 per quadrant --standard rate, before insurance.

I don't want to go back to her. I have a root canal that is not finished, plus it will need a crown, all of which I can not afford; and don't even know if I really needed. I need some help and answers ASAP. I am scheduled to go back and see her on Thursday (5/18) and I need to know my rights.

This is why I do not go to the dentists. You think you can trust them, and then they pull fast ones on you. To date, I have spent approximately $3000 at the dentist office.

I'm only 26 years old, and feel as if I've been violated.


HELP ME!!!!!

She mentioned it while doing the other fillings, she never showed it to me on x-ray, and proceeded without my permission to do the root canal.

I stopped reading here. How did the dentist do a root canal on you without your permission?

I stopped reading because I wouldn't have believed the rest of your story.

[Narjett]

I'm paying out of pocket for extensive amount of work done. I was sitting in the dentist chair having three teeth filled, at the time she mentioned another tooth on the same side needed a root canal. She proceeded to do a root canal without my knowledge. Since x-rays were previously done, wouldn't this tooth needing a root canal have shown up on the x-rays? Do I have a case?

[janedoe23]

Some cavities are deeper then what they appear on film and the Dentist won't know anything until she gets in there. Apparently, the cavity was getting further and further into the root and if she would have just filled it then you would have been here complaining that she didn't get rid of all the decay like she should have.

[barry1817]

Originally Posted by Narjett

What is the name of your state? Georgia

I am working on getting braces, and have needed to have a lot of dental work done. On last Thursday, I went to see the dentist for some cavities to be filled. I've been going to her diligently since March and I do not have dental insurance and have been paying out of pocket. On last Thursday, she claims to have noticed a tooth which was going to need a root canal. She mentioned it while doing the other fillings, she never showed it to me on x-ray, and proceeded without my permission to do the root canal. Once again, I am paying out of pocket. At that time I did not pay her for the entire services rendered, because I had to come back this week to have the remainder of the procedure finished. The week before last, she was filling cavaties on the right upper side of my mouth (#2, 4, 6) and she said tooth #5 needed a filling, and once again proceeded to fill it without my consent. Where is tooth #5 any way? I paid for those services; and I still don't know if that tooth even needed a filling, because once again, she didn't show me on x-ray.

Also, I believe I am being over charged for all the services rendered. Is there a standard ADA rate, or is the sky the limit with private dental practices. For example, I had some scaling done, it cost me over $1000 dollars, and I am hearing from others who go to the dentist that they have paid on average no more than $185 per quadrant --standard rate, before insurance.

I don't want to go back to her. I have a root canal that is not finished, plus it will need a crown, all of which I can not afford; and don't even know if I really needed. I need some help and answers ASAP. I am scheduled to go back and see her on Thursday (5/18) and I need to know my rights.

This is why I do not go to the dentists. You think you can trust them, and then they pull fast ones on you. To date, I have spent approximately $3000 at the dentist office.

I'm only 26 years old, and feel as if I've been violated.


HELP ME!!!!!

Dentists are allowed to charge their fee, you are allowed to seek treatment elsewhere. But normally an informed consent is signed before treatment, and a statement of fees are given before treatment starts.

Tooth #5 is the tooth on the top, right behind the canine.

Did the teeth need treatment, without looking at an x-ray that is difficult to know. Will a tooth need treatment, even if no x-ray evidence is there, it is possible.

I am concerned about a tooth suddendly needing root canal, and was not clear if it was a tooth that was diagnosed and needing treatment, or just an added in procedure.

Example. I do the diagnosis and when we treat tooth number 4, I tell you that the decay was deeper than I thought and went into the pulp chamber, normal.

I am working on your teeth on tooth #4 and tell you that now tooth #5 needs root canal, I get my antenna up.

I hope this helps and it would be interesting to see the signed consent, the signed financial, and the x-rays to fully understand what exactly is going on. I think you can appreciate that what you are saying may have an innocent explanation. Which I have seen happen so often.
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Good luck with this. Feel free to e-mail me directly if you have other problems which you want to discuss with this matter.

[email]Barry1817@aol.com[/email]

[Narjett]

I gratefully appreciate you taking the time out to respond to my concerns. There was no signed consent and no signed financials...NOW WHAT?