Dental Malpractice Attorney
Serving Central Florida including Winter Garden, Apopka, Clermont, Inverness, and Leesburg
Dentists, like doctors, are expected to follow a certain high standard of care when evaluating and treating patients. Sometimes, however, mistakes in the dental chair can have a lasting effect on patients.
Attorney Mark P. Cressman investigates and prosecutes dental professionals who’ve made errors in judgment and caused their patients harm as a result. We help men and women who’ve experienced physical pain, negative appearance results, extraneous expenses, and certain lifestyle limitations due to dental malpractice.
The dental malpractice team at our central Florida law firm knows the laws surrounding malpractice well, and we know how to recognize signs of negligence. Negligent dental work may include obviously unattractive or nonfunctional dental work, injuries due to bad dental work, injuries due to treatment that was not consented to, and injuries or conditions due to failure to diagnose a dental condition.
After a thorough investigation, we’ll compare the details of your dental experience to accepted industry standards. In proving that negligence occurred, we’ll attempt to show how your dentist’s actions deviated from the reasonable standards of care. In most cases, we’ll be able to let you know if you have a dental malpractice case within five days of receiving all pertinent dental/medical records.
You will only have a case if we can show that the dentist acted outside the realm of what a reasonable dentist would or should have done in your situation, and that the negligence caused you injury. You may not bring a dental malpractice case simply because you are not happy with the appearance of a crown.
Examples of dental malpractice injuries:
- Permanent or temporary damage to oral nerves (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth, gums, etc.)
- Numbness or loss of taste
- Structural injuries to any mouth anatomy
- TMJ (temporomandibular joint) injuries
- Wrongful death during a dental procedure
- Injuries caused by anesthesia errors
- Failure to diagnose or treat oral cancer or gum disease
- Infection due to improper use of dental equipment
- Injuries related to tooth extraction
- Any injuries caused by defective dental tools or equipment
- Injuries or infection related to faulty root canals, crowns, or bridgework
If you or a loved one was injured by a negligent dentist, talk to our central Florida personal injury team today. Please call or email Attorney Mark P. Cressman for your free one-on-one consultation.
Winter Garden, FL 34787
407-877-7317
