Teeth and dentists

Sofa_Sogood

Emmy wrote:

I just need a wonderul dentist to take me on and fix everything....

Emmy

I'm sure you'll find one Emmy. Despite my new dentist being a bit 'unprofessional' about another dentist, he's fantastic.

I hope you find one, and soon x

Toothsmith

Hi Emmy.

It does sound like a very bad experience. I would ask next time you're at the dental hospital if you may have a case.

It is a bit to complicated to know for sure over a chat board like this.

Treatment options vary so much with time, and what was the right thing to do 20+ years ago seems barbaric now. I often wonder how what I'm doing today will be looked on in 20 years time. The best thing is always to do as little in the way of irreversible stuff as you can. That is quite a hard thing to do when you have a drill in your hand though.

It was still the norm right up to the 50s in some areas of the country for a bride's wedding present from her parents to be all her teeth out and her first set of dentures. To save her husband the future expense.

Best of luck with it.

Emmy

Toothsmith wrote:

Hi Emmy.

It does sound like a very bad experience. I would ask next time you're at the dental hospital if you may have a case.

It is a bit to complicated to know for sure over a chat board like this.

Thanks
A case with which bit??

I know it is complicated but your feeling is???? I don't want you to write anything in blood but would value your professional opinion, please.
Emmy

Toothsmith

Emmy wrote:

Thanks
A case with which bit??

I know it is complicated but your feeling is???? I don't want you to write anything in blood but would value your professional opinion, please.
Emmy

Possibly both.

Depends on many things though.

The reason for doing what was done (Or not done), the accepted standards at the time they were done. Consent issues surrounding the extractions (It does sound like you were very determined to have it done - despite your age)
Alternatives to what was done.

My feeling is it could well be a long drawn out legal battle.

Emmy

Okay....thank you....who should I ask then ?... I am not going to say it's not the money because yes that is a part of it when it could be upwards of 4k....but more than anything I want to get it sorted and stop feeling so emotional when anyone talks about teeth.
Emmy
Ps, I get terrible tooth envy, most women say "oh I wish I had her legs, or tummy" I just say "wow....lovely teeth!!" how sad...thanks toothsmith x

Emmy

just thinking about alternatives that would have been around at the time :
Extractions....braces? ignore me and tell me I was too young to make those decisions. I really don't see that the consent (from me) should be taken into account, I couldn't have fort for my country, got married, had (legal) sex as I was (rightly) deemed unable to make those decisions.
I don't know what the acceptable standards were 24 years ago though!

The gum situation....snip it....refer me to someone who could? follow up that referral until I got seen.....?????? no idea

Toothsmith

Your thoughts on alternatives are all correct.

What I can't do is get into the mind of the dentist as to why these weren't considered, but each does have several possible explanations. Or it could be just negligent. I can't say.

The consent thing that disturbs me about the tooth out is that your Mum DID know it was being done. She may have been persuaded against her judgement, but it would have been by you and the dentist. He must have seen a good case for it. I cannot begin to imagine what that case would have been, but taking your teeth out and making a denture would not have made him much money, and it doesn't sound like it was him who did the bridge? I can't think what his motivation to do it would have been other than he thought it was the best thing to do.

Ask the dentist you see at the dental hospital if he can see why it was done, and get in touch with a dental legal specialist such as the link I posted if you want to take it further. I doubt it will be a straight forward case though.

Emmy

Okay...if I am reading this correctly I was the only person that needed to give consent to the teeth taking out...yeah??
Don't know what his motives were other than to please an 11 year old....like I say they were healthy just a bit big for me LOL And no it wasn't him that did the bridge.
Thanks for your help
Emmy x

shokadelika

Ive seen nine dentists over the last 40 years they have all been rubbish! I'm still searching for a good one!The best Dentist I had was young talented and ambitious he ended up going to Harley Street ,the worst causing me to have an three hour double Apecectomy at the Dental Hospital caused by two root fillings that extened into my gums and caused constant infection.I have lost all faith in their proffession.

Toothsmith

Emmy wrote:

Okay...if I am reading this correctly I was the only person that needed to give consent to the teeth taking out...yeah??
Don't know what his motives were other than to please an 11 year old....like I say they were healthy just a bit big for me LOL And no it wasn't him that did the bridge.
Thanks for your help
Emmy x

No - Your Mum would have had to have given the consent.

Did she at any point FORBID the dentist to do it? If not, that could be taken as consent.

Ideally, for the dentist's protection, he should have got her to sign something to say she understood what was going on and that she was in agreement.

This almost certainly did not happen.

The whole case would revolve around the conversations between your Mum and the dentist. Not your's.