Post-procedure sepsis
Dental case study
Drink-driving offence
Dental case study
Case study: Drink driving offence
...Dr K had a few glasses of champagne early in the evening and assumed she was fit to drive...
Case study: Post-procedure sepsis
...It is claimed that the dentist breached his duty of care to the patient by extracting a wisdom tooth which was infected by an abscess...
Case study: Injection pain
...The patient is unhappy that the dentist did not recognise her distress during the injection...
Injection pain
Dental case study
Root fragment
Dental case study
Case study: Perforated tooth
...The patient suffers bleeding during root canal treatment and a small perforation is found...
Failed crown
...The post-operative radiograph in this case shows that the crown margin finished on composite core material rather than sound tooth and with an obvious gap....
Perforated tooth
...Mr G claims to have not been made aware of potential complications prior to RCT; nor did the dentist inform him of the significant bleeding during the procedure...