Plaintiff was a 45 year old telephone company network technician who had been under the continuous care of his general dentist from 1975 until 1995. Plaintiff was compliant and diligent about his oral hygiene and followed all dental advice by the defendant: when he needed restorations, he had them done; when he needed a root...Read More

Plaintiff was a banker in her mid-twenties when she underwent a bilateral mandibular sagittal osteotomy and LeFort I maxillary osteotomy because of a facial skeletal deformity. An acrylic interocclusal stent was inserted during surgery and the patient’s jaws closed into the stent. During the immediate post-surgical period, the patient’s lower teeth came out of the...Read More

The plaintiff, age ten and one-half, visited the defendant dental clinic for orthodontic treatment. The first orthodontist started treatment and extracted six deciduous teeth and four permanent teeth. The second orthodontist continued treatment and estimated two years of therapy and one year in retainers. Nearly four years after therapy began the plaintiff was still in...Read More

The plaintiff, a thirty-one year old homemaker and executive recruiter for local and national firms, was referred to her general dentist, by the defendant orthodontist, to attempt the retrieval of a palatally-impacted maxillary cuspid (upper eye-tooth embedded in the roof of the mouth). The defendant, without the benefit of cephalometric x-rays, diagnosed her as having...Read More

The plaintiff was a twenty-five year old legal secretary when in June, 1981, she visited the offices of a general dentist for a routine examination. The dentist suggested that she consult with the defendant who was an orthodontist and who worked in that general dentist’s office one day per month. The defendant orthodontist owned family...Read More

The plaintiff, age forty-eight, went to the defendant general dentist in October 1985 for dental extractions and dentures. The medical history given to the defendant included squamous cell carcinoma of the left mandibular retromolar mucosa which was treated with radiation in 1982. He also listed the names, addresses and phone numbers of his physicians. The...Read More

The plaintiff, age twenty-seven in 1984, underwent several endodontic (root-canal) procedures by her general dentist using the controversial filling material variously called Sargenti paste, N2 and RC2B. The drug has never been approved by the FDA nor the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the ADA, largely because it contains the highly toxic paraformaldehyde and lead...Read More

The plaintiff was a forty-five year old retailer who had eight teeth prepared in four quadrants as abutments for four bridges after having periodontal treatment. During the crown and bridge phase of treatment, the plaintiff visited the periodontist for maintenance examinations and was told by the periodontist that the crowns were improperly contoured and had...Read More

The plaintiff; a young attorney, suffered from congenital anodontia (born without many deciduous teeth and permanent tooth buds) and had undergone very sophisticated crown and bridge reconstruction and implants during his life. During a root canal performed by the endodontist-defendant, a fissure or crevice in the pulp chamber floor was noted by the defendant who...Read More

Plaintiff was a 30 year old pressure cleaning mechanic who underwent the construction of a three unit dental bridge by the defendant general dentist. The temporary bridge came loose shortly before the permanent bridge was to be cemented and the plaintiff walked around without the temporary for a few days. During that interval, the teeth...Read More