Ok, I know that sometimes the dentist does do poor work and it is his fault, ( I have worked for one of those). But so often I hear patients blaming dentists for problems that in reality they caused themselves. I have seen people come into the office with 6 or 7 cavities, many very deep. We drill out the decay as consevatively as possible and place a filling. We warn the patient that there is a chance of a rootcanal in the future, But in a week or 2 the patient comes back claiming that we did something to their tooth. This same type of blame happens with dentures, extractions, crowns, and rootcanals. Instead of gathering information about the specific treatment they recieved, alot of patients listen to family and friends and start yelling "malpractice, Im going to sue". Why are there so many patients that think that dentists are doing something wrong, instead of realizing that dentistry is not an exact science, and things do go wrong?
2006-08-24
15:41:46
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LittleMermaid
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