Hopefully if this does get to a jury, that they wont try and say I should have gotton anything taken care of earlier. I have never had any dental problems. To this day I still dont have any cavities. The filling that was put in many years ago was a small pinhole filling to protect my tooth from developing into a cavity. I could see where the dentist may have not seen it.

Now when I did get the xrays taken when I first came in. The panoramic view. The dentist never even looked at those before he started to work on me. He had no idea whether there was an infection or not. He just looked in my mouth and did what he though.

I wonder if because the dentist owns his practice and he stated in a taped proceeding that he had to change the way his practice is ran. I wonder if you could sue him under something that goes under his practice not just his license.

I didn't mean to freak you out...justed wanted to portray that it isn't Perry Mason, if you are old enough to know about that!! I did a little blowing off steam too!

No change in practice...except uses a board approved consent form when using formaldehyde root canal paste. I was told by a patient that they also started using a consent form for everything - to water down the effect of the board ordered one, IMO.

LOL and yes I do know about Perry Mason... You can blow off as much steam as you want. I have had to go to counseling for this injury so thats how I blow off steam.

Is it common standard of care to prescribe an antibiotic a few days before extraction? My OS put me on a course of antibiotics before my operation...and another after. I did have an infection around my wisdom tooth.

If your dentist commonly prescribes an antibiotic for dental infections but didn't in your case, that kind of looks like he may have known there was no infection?

The dentist actually never looked at my xray first to verify if there was an infection. At the two hearings with the Board of Dental Examiners... They asked him where on these xrays that he took do you see an infection. He couldnt answer it. Other than saying he did what he thought was there. I think he knew there wasnt an infection. I think he just wanted to make extra money that day.

I dont know the answer if its common practice to put someone on antibitotics before a surgery. I would think it would be due to the fact that if there is an infection. Doing a surgery could only spread it when he started to extract it. Not sure.

I really hope your lawyer can help you present a good solid case...what's happened to you just doesn't sound kosher, imo.

Not to mention that Dr Reed Day doesn't take my insurance. Which was upsetting also.

I speak funny. The OS told me I will have to learn how to speak properly and to be careful when I eat or drink something because If in fact its to hot. I could burn my jaw line and inner lip, because I cannot feel but only about 50 percent of it.