Personal Injury Law

Malpractice ? Dental Malpractice by Dancing Dentist

Many folks are afraid of dentists, but few would expect their dentists to dance their way into their sinus cavity. As Orlando malpractice lawyers we were amazed at the report of a dentist dancing to the song ?Car Wash? while he was extracting a patient?s tooth. In the process, he lost the inch-long drill bit, which punctured the patient?s sinus cavity and came to rest by her eye socket, according to her lawsuit.

The patient underwent emergency surgery when her dentist was unable to remove the drill bit. Following the surgery, the woman continues to suffer facial swelling, nerve damage and has chronic infections because of the bacteria that seeped into her sinus cavity.

This dental malpractice case began when the patient went to her dentist for pain in a molar started getting worse. An exposed nerve made it sensitive to heat and cold and a root canal had been ruled out as a possible option, according to her lawsuit. The dentist gave her some novocaine and while he was drilling to break the molar into quadrants before the extraction, the patient heard a snapping sound. All the while according to her lawyer, the dentist was dancing to the beat of the song on the radio in the dental office.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on December 03, 2007 (boomark / email).