I have had really bad experiences at dental offices. Including a dentist trying to drill a hole & fill my perfect fronth tooth. I think they should be investigated. I would atleast like to report them. Who do I call?
2007-01-24 14:20:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
Dr. Albert is right.
In Ontario, the board is RCDS (Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario). The number is found in the yellow pages. I suggest you look in the yellow pages or the internet.
Try this link it will direct you to various boards in the USA
http://www.dentalwatch.org/org/boards.html
2007-01-24 15:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by funandsun20 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a dentist.
Ivy, chances are extremely high that you don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps the tooth had a cavity in it and you didn't understand clearly what the doctor intended to do. There are other possibilities. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the patient is wrong. Why? Because patients know very little about what we do and generally have a very low "dental I.Q."
And let me add one other point: your story sounds like a bunch of B.S. For the doctor to "try to drill a hole and fill your perfect front tooth", he/she would have had to give you an injection of anesthetic there. Would you have us believe that you didn't raise this question with the doctor immediately after he gave you the injection, and that you sat there and let him/her take a drill to your "perfect front tooth"?
Before you make a big fuss over something about which you will probably turn out to be wrong, I'd advise you to go back to the doctor and get things straight with him/her first.
2007-01-25 01:57:41 · answer #2 · answered by Nebula D 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not all dentist have high IQ's. My friend went to have a tooth pulled. The dentist pulled the wrogn tooth. Now tell me with exrays he didn't know the correct tooth to pull, so in other words he pulled a healthy tooth.
Go talk to the dentist. If you are not satisfied with his answers then report him. ADA.org
2007-01-25 13:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your front tooth is perfect, why drill a whole on it? If it's in bad condition, though, then such procedure is acceptable. Call Human Rights.
2007-01-24 22:27:32 · answer #4 · answered by The Prancing Stallion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IVY,
WHEN A DENTIST IS UNDER INVESTIGATION, THE STATE'S BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION CAN ACTUALLY PLACE A DENTIST UNDER INVESTIGATION AND EVEN SEVERELY RESTRICT THE PRACTICE. IT'S HAPPENED TO A DENTIST HERE IN CHICAGO IN WHICH A LITTLE GIRL DIED.
2007-01-24 22:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋