Dental Negligence Claims

Going to the dentist can be a nervous and scary experience for many people. Although most dental treatment is performed to a high standard with beneficial results, sometimes things can and do go wrong. If you have suffered a personal injury as a result of dental negligence within the past three years, you may be eligible to make a no win no fee dental negligence compensation claim.

Your dentist owes you a duty of care to provide the correct treatment required, and to perform this treatment in the correct manner. If your dentist breaches this duty of care whilst providing dental treatment, and this results in some form of personal injury, you may be entitled to make a compensation claim for dental negligence.

There are three main types of dental negligence:

• Dental negligence caused by misdiagnosis
• Dental negligence through inadequate treatment
• Dental negligence caused by careless dental work

A dental negligence claim through misdiagnosis is when a dentist either fails to diagnose a condition or misdiagnoses a condition, which subsequently results in a failure to provide a patient with the correct treatment for his or her actual dental condition. In order to make a successful dental negligence compensation claim for a misdiagnosis, the misdiagnosis must result in a personal injury. For example, has the failure to provide the correct treatment made the condition worse, or would the patient have recovered from the condition quicker, had the condition been correctly diagnosed.

If you have been provided with inadequate treatment which has caused a personal injury, which could and should have been avoided, you may be eligible to make a compensation claim for dental negligence. Inadequate treatment could occur on a single occasion, or in some cases over a long period of time. To be eligible to make a dental negligence claim under such grounds, it must be shown that the same treatment would not have been provided by a reasonable and competent member of the dental professional.

Dental negligence claims made due to careless dental work can include a wide range of different situations. For example, due to careless work a dentist could cut your lip during treatment or extract the wrong tooth. If you feel you have been injured due to the careless work of your dentist or dental nurse, you may be entitled to make a claim for dental negligence compensation.

Start a dental negligence claim

As with any type of personal injury compensation claim, if you feel you may have been the victim of dental negligence, contact a personal injury solicitor who will be able to discuss your potential claim for dental negligence. Many personal injury solicitors will be able to take your dental negligence claim on a no win no fee basis, and some solicitors also specialise in the area of dental negligence claims.