A Connecticut resident with oral cancer often learns that something might be seriously wrong during an appointment with their dentist. But if your dentist does not pay close attention, they could fail to diagnose your cancer or misdiagnose a cancerous lesion as...
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Dental Malpractice
Holistic dentistry: what are its risks?
If you are familiar with holistic medicine as an alternative to the care that mainstream doctors in Connecticut provide, you may be interested to know that there is such a thing as holistic dentistry too. Just as holistic medicine takes a naturalistic, whole-body...
How can a visit to the dentist lead to lingual nerve damage?
After a trip to the dentist, you may experience numbness or pain. In some cases, this could be a sign that your dental visit did serious damage to the nerves in your jaw. The lingual nerve—a nerve which is responsible for sensation in the lower lip, tongue and...
There Is No Substitute for Experience in Handling Dental Malpractice Cases:
Medical malpractice cases in Connecticut are unique; in that, unlike other personal injury actions our state requires, as a predicate to starting a lawsuit, that the plaintiff attach to his/her complaint a good faith letter obtained from what the law refers to as a...
Dental Malpractice: Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance (AGGA: FAGGA) and ALF
Patient’s searching for alternatives to traditional orthodontic surgery, unfortunately, have been taken in by a small group of general dentists who advocate use of several, non-traditional, palatal expansion devices: Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance (AGGA);...
Dental Malpractice: The myth of holistic dentistry, biological dentistry, cavitations, and neuralgia inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO).
In these days of alternative approaches to traditional medicine and dentistry, the concept of holistic or naturopathic dentistry has arisen. Patients concerned about the idea of heavy metal toxicity are often drawn to practitioners who advocate the removal of...