AboutGlenn A. Dorfman Expertise Twenty-four years experience in personal injury, medical malpractice and medical product liability law. Practice currently concentrated on the diet drug (fen-phen) litigation. Qualified to answer all questions regarding injuries and the law, except for worker`s compensation.
Question I am not sure if this qualifies to malpractice but I try to ask anyway because I am extremely upset of the situation. I took my 7 year old son to the dentist to have a tooth extracted. My son has an irrational fear of the dentist and the dentist is very familiar with my son. We have been going there for years. He gave my son the medicine versed to calm him down for the extraction but the medicine was clearly not calming him down. He proceed to the extraction with my son screaming and at times even not being able to take a breath due that his mouth was full of phlegm. the problem here is that now that I am inspecting the extraction area the gum line is clearly rupture and I am going to have to take my son to another dentist to see what we can do. Is this on its way to malpractice?
Answer "gum line rupture"? That is not much of a description. You mean where the tooth came from or somewhere else? How bad is it. Was there profuse bleeding? Was the rupture from a instrument slipping? Is it still bleeding? Was it sutured? Why is another dentist needed?Sounds to me like the dentist was doing his best under difficult circumstances. If the child was screeming and yelling and bucking around in the chair, I guess the dentist should have given up but instead tried to get the job done. Now you want to further traumatize the child by seeing a new dentist? Anhow, whatever happened, it is not a dental malpractice case because the child is not grieviously injured and I presume has not suffered any longterm damage or injury of anykind. This does not excuse any possible malpractice but damages must be quite high to make a lawsuit worth pursuing. "gum line rupture". Hum? Do you mean laceration? Was it stiched up. Why do people leave out important information? You are not the only one.
