Stinnie1222
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? New York
I'm not sure if my parents should contact a lawyer for malpractice. It all starts with my father having a toothache. My father does not have good teeth to begin with, most of them were rotting. My father went to a dentist to have the toothache problem fixed and also ,when he was ready, have his teeth all pulled and get dentures. The toothache was fixed by pulling his tooth. About a week later he went back to get the rest of his teeth pulled in order to start the process of getting dentures. They took all the xrays and so on and eventually pulled all of the top teeth out. This started a major problem... His gums became infected and were bulding up with puss. The dentist put a drain in to drain everything out, but that didn't work. Come to find out after weeks of being in tremendous pain... my father was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the dentist put the cancer there... but should he have seen something in the xray? I'm not a doctor or a dentist but I do know that if someone has an absess (Sorry if spelled incorrectly) the dentist does not pull your teeth you must first get rid of the infection. Well to make a long story short my father had to have a maxillectomy. He had his face cut from his eyebrow down to his upper lip.... his top pallet of his mouth removed along with a fist sized portion removed from behind his nose. He Just had the surgery done exactly a week ago today. He now need a prothesis in his mouth to cover the hole of what is missing. This has all happened over the course of about 4 months. These whole 4 months my father has been in pain taking 4 percesets every 3 hours... he has lost 35 lbs. because he hasn't been able to eat all that much due to the pain. My question after this whole story is should my parents persue a lawsuit against the dentist ? If it shows in the xrays that there was something there before the dentist pulled the teeth, would there be a malpractice lawsuit? Please any information would be great.
I'm not sure if my parents should contact a lawyer for malpractice. It all starts with my father having a toothache. My father does not have good teeth to begin with, most of them were rotting. My father went to a dentist to have the toothache problem fixed and also ,when he was ready, have his teeth all pulled and get dentures. The toothache was fixed by pulling his tooth. About a week later he went back to get the rest of his teeth pulled in order to start the process of getting dentures. They took all the xrays and so on and eventually pulled all of the top teeth out. This started a major problem... His gums became infected and were bulding up with puss. The dentist put a drain in to drain everything out, but that didn't work. Come to find out after weeks of being in tremendous pain... my father was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the dentist put the cancer there... but should he have seen something in the xray? I'm not a doctor or a dentist but I do know that if someone has an absess (Sorry if spelled incorrectly) the dentist does not pull your teeth you must first get rid of the infection. Well to make a long story short my father had to have a maxillectomy. He had his face cut from his eyebrow down to his upper lip.... his top pallet of his mouth removed along with a fist sized portion removed from behind his nose. He Just had the surgery done exactly a week ago today. He now need a prothesis in his mouth to cover the hole of what is missing. This has all happened over the course of about 4 months. These whole 4 months my father has been in pain taking 4 percesets every 3 hours... he has lost 35 lbs. because he hasn't been able to eat all that much due to the pain. My question after this whole story is should my parents persue a lawsuit against the dentist ? If it shows in the xrays that there was something there before the dentist pulled the teeth, would there be a malpractice lawsuit? Please any information would be great.