Posts Tagged ‘dental blunder’

Widow wins compensation over poor dental work

Widow wins compensation over poor dental work

A widow from Droylsden, Lancashire has been awarded fifty thousand pounds after a dental procedure to fix a crooked tooth did not work correctly. Seventy five year old Jean Wall decided to visit her dentist to address a crooked front tooth that had been bothering her for a number of years. She found the courage […]


Dental patients given ‘lethal’ doses of drug by mistake

Dental patients given ‘lethal’ doses of drug by mistake

Eight dental patients received a potentially lethal dose of a sedative drug after a mix-up at the University of Colorado dental school, it has been revealed. Dentists at the school were unaware that they had given the patients five times the recommended dose, after the drug was added to the school’s stock by mistake. The […]


Dental board warned about register blunder five years ago

Dental board warned about register blunder five years ago

Following the revelation that the Scottish health board had been paying out thousands of pounds of deceased patients in the press yesterday, a retired dentist has announced that the board was warned about problems with the register five years ago. Yesterday, a report in the Press and Journal revealed that the health board had been […]