Pages On: Dental Negligence
Visiting the dentist is something people are generally apprehensive about. People pay out of pocket for expensive treatments, usually when in pain or distress. Dentists have a duty of care to patients to make sure they don’t come away from treatment worse than when they came in. If a dentist have acted negligently with you in their care, and caused you to suffer a loss, you may be entitled to claim medical negligence compensation.
22,000 dental patients recalled
Posted: 29 October 2015
Posted in: Dental Negligence, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims
In the biggest NHS recall ever recorded, 22,000 dental patients have been recalled, and some tested for HIV and hepatitis after Nottingham dentist, Desmond D’Mello, was secretly filmed by a colleague who suspected his hygiene practices. Mr D’Mello was found to have been reusing dirty gloves and failing to sterilise equipment in his practise. This has been described as the “biggest recall in NHS history” and many of those recalled have threatened legal action as a result. The footage, which was filmed in secret, has been requested to be viewed…
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Negligent dentist struck off register
Posted: 19 March 2015
Posted in: Dental Negligence, Medical Negligence
A dentist has been struck off the register after he failed to disclose the fact that he was under investigation for misconduct and negligence. It was uncovered in a review that the Hove dentist had not informed the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust that he was being investigated for misconduct. The General Dental Council (GDC) ruled that Ali Asghar Pourrezaei Akhlaghi put his patients “at unwarranted risk of harm” and also caused “avoidable harm”. “failure to comply with his regulator” This was uncovered when he failed to…
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