Can a dentist mess up your tooth like making you have a abcsess?
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Yes, I had some work done on my teeth and after my mouth was a little numb they gave me another shot and hit my jaw bone, it hurt for months. They also messed up the filling they did and my teeth have never been the same. Abscess can happen anytime you get a puncture wound that heals over and gets infected.
It is very well possible that the dentist could have messed something up, but the pain and cracking or crunch could have been the needle penetrating the the gum. It sounds awful! I had a dentist that gave me a root canal on a tooth that had gotten broken in gym class and capped it. Couple of weeks later a small white dot showed up on my gum above the same tooth. Then the pain started and the throbbing. It was the weekend and there was nothing to do but wait for Monday. It was awful! I could not sleep. We ended up having a family day of quietly watching movies while I silently wept laying in my daddy's lap. I was finally so worn out that I passed out. Turns out that the dentist had not gotten all of the root out and it had gotten infected and it abscessed. He had to cut the cap off and draining the tooth and recapping it. But I did get a happy memory of being with my family out of it!
Yes, it is possible. Remember, dentists are human, just like you and me. They make mistakes sometimes, as does everyone else. The problem is, most of them won't admit that they did something wrong, and still expect you to pay.
I'm not saying that your dentist did screw up either. That "cracking" noise you heard could have just been him scraping the needle across your jaw bone, some rough tissue in the gums, or the root of the tooth. Generally, it takes alot more than him applying a little pressure with a needle to break a tooth, unless it was really decayed to begin with.
I do sympathize with you, however. I had a tooth removed yesterday, and it was no picnic. I've been in a good bit of pain since. It was supposed to be a routein pulling, but the tooth was very bad off (it was a hollow shell because the filling fell out years ago) and when he went to pull it, the whole thing crumbled! He had to go in and cut the roots out.
That's an example of it not being his fault. He tried to do what he had to do, and something went wrong. But, always remember, doctors, nurses, dentists, they're all the same as you and I, humans who sometimes make mistakes or bad judgements. Nobody is perfect.
They shouldn't charge you for the extraction. If it was diagnosed THREE days after he did the filling. I would try and get the money back for the filling on the grounds that the doctor mis-diagnosed a filling for an extraction. Plus he did the injection wrong. Please go to another office.
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