Dentist's liability: Get advice about your situation
Questioner
Half a hair ago a piece of my tooth broke off. My dentist tried to repair this tooth. But afterwards I kept getting inflamed gums with this tooth. When I came for a consultation about this, the dentist told me that the two screws he had put in to save my tooth had been drilled into the gums, which caused the inflammation. These screws should be placed in the root of the tooth. My dentist's conclusion: you need a bridge at 480 euros. Because I had a very bad feeling about this course of events, I went to another dentist for a second opinion, who looked at the X-ray and told me that the screws had been placed very badly and that he had seen some other sloppy things, but that was out of the question for the moment. He advised me to get an implant and not a bridge for the reasons we know. But now I am left with an expense item and a bridge or implant in my mouth, in my opinion due to careless actions by my dentist. Can that just happen? Can I hold him liable for this? I don't assume so, but in the worst case a dentist could simply cash in on this, by working sloppily and thus earning extra money because that bad work has to be repaired again. Again I don't assume that in this case it is malicious intent, but for now his sloppiness will cost me 2000 euros. I would like to hear your advice on this.Lawyer
The dentist has a duty of care that may be expected of a reasonably competent and reasonably acting specialist. The question here is whether the duty of care has been breached and whether this careless action can be attributed to the dentist. It therefore depends on the treatments and opinions of experts to what extent the dentist can be held liable and he must provide counter-evidence for this.Neem de volgende stap
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