Can I sue a dentist office for pulling out a tooth without being numb or on any medication, plus after I told them to stop before the started pulling?
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Can I sue a dentist office for pulling out a tooth without being numb or on any medication, plus after I told them to stop before the started pulling?
Held my mouth open and took the tooth
out did not stop after I told them if
hurt when they tapped it and I am
traumatised.
Asked on April 4, 2017 under Malpractice Law, North Carolina
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
There is no point in suing for the pain from on poorly or unanaestheticized extraction. The amount of compensation you could get for enduring the pain of one extraction is so little (consider: to get significant compensation, you generally need injuries like long term lost of a limb function) that, given that you would have to hire (i.e. pay) a dental expert to testify at the trial about what was done wrong, you would almost certainly spend more on the case than you would get back.
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