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Drilling injuries to tongue and gums in dentistry

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#1
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  • 2021/06/08 03:19

I recently injured my tongue and gums drilling with a drill during a cavity treatment at a Japanese American dentist in Torrance. I was a little concerned about the way the doctor used the drill during the treatment. I thought it might be dangerous to be so careless. During the treatment, I didn't notice the injury because of the anesthesia, but I noticed it a few hours after I went home. The injury is not that big, but since I injured the side of my tongue, it hurts when I hit my teeth while eating and talking.
Since the pain was stronger on my tongue, I didn't notice it easily, but my gums were also cut by about an inch. I noticed that the gums were almost turning into mouth ulcers.

I told the dentist that I was injured, but they said that I would be seen 5 days after the injury,
I would think that after that many days, I would have recovered quite well,

but even if I went to see the dentist,
I would be sent home, ！ thinking that it is almost healed already. I feel that it is useless to go there.

What would you do ？?

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#17

＃ 12 ， 13 ， 14 ， 15, 16
Thank you.　
It will be a long story, but I will tell you the progress, etc.



From dentistry, I cannot treat you as a patient in the future. I have been informed that my relationship as patient and dentist will end 30 days from today.
I have been asked to sign a consent form for a refund of treatment fees and related documents, but is there any deadline by which I have to sign this form ？
Also, after signing this form, is it prohibited to post my opinion on such a forum? ？


I wanted to get a Japanese translation, but I was told "I am not a legal expert and cannot translate." and I have to translate it myself, and
I also have a stomachache from the stress of several emails with the dentist, so if it can be done in about 1 ～ 2 weeks, I would like to do so.

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#18

Until the very end, there was no apology for hitting him with the drill and injuring him, nor a word of condolences for asking about the condition of the area.

Even though we are a litigious nation, as a human being, if I accidentally injured someone, shouldn't I at least say I'm sorry
If there is a rule against saying that, shouldn't I at least ask how he is healing
and ask "How is he now ？ recovering? ？ "How are you recovering ？?

Normally, I would not complain about a minor injury, but
I had a lot of questions about the cavity treatment.
I noticed the injury when I got home, so I called the dental office and told them I was injured this time.


Due to his advanced age, his former family doctor, who retired at the end of the year, told him
before his retirement, "In the back left, there are 2 ， small cavities of size that can be left alone for 3 years.
Brush and floss well and take care of it." He advised.

I decided to start the year with nerve treatment and crowns at this dental visit, and
I decided to treat this small cavity recently because it would be financially difficult if the cavity progressed to nerve treatment again in the future.

So, the treatment was done with many points that did not add up.

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#19

1, I was told to email the x-rays from my previous family doctor, which I did, but neither the nurse nor the doctor has seen them.
If they had seen it, they would have known which area of the teeth to focus on.

"The previous doctor told me it was the back left."
but the x-rays I took showed only 3/5 of the tooth at the very back.　
I think that's where you need the most ？ ？ ？

The x-rays are not taken again and the diagnosis begins.


2. The doctor looks at the x-ray and says
"I think the second from the back has a cavity.
"The blackened cross-shaped area here looks suspicious.　I won't know until I open it." I say.

I took an x-ray, but I can't tell without opening the cavity ！ ？ ？ ？
2 ， Even if I leave it alone for 3 years, I can't tell without opening a small cavity ・. ・ ？ ？

3, "I heard it was a back tooth, so I thought the tooth at the back of the first tooth was decayed ！
It was the tooth next to it ！," I said,

！ ！ This area of the tooth at the back is also suspicious. I'll have to open this one up too.
This one is also next to each other, so we'd better take a look at it while we're at it," said the doctor. The doctor said.

He had only mentioned the second tooth from the back until I spoke, but after hearing my words, he added one more tooth to be treated.
Here I am skeptical, ''Is the cavity really there ・ ・ ・ ？ ''.

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#20

4, treatment cost not presented before treatment
I asked the receptionist about the cost of treating cavities at the end of the previous crown
$180 for a small one and $270 for a large one, not up to the nerve but large.　She said that the doctor would determine the size of the in-between ones.

The sentiment during the treatment was that since they added one more, the two small cavities would be 180 ， and the 180 would be 360 ・ ・.
If I hadn't told them, they wouldn't have added it ・ ・ ・," he regretted.

→ The account exceeded my expectations to $470.

After looking at the x-rays, he couldn't say clearly "I have a cavity here and here ！" ・ ・ ・.

5. I felt uneasy about the doctor's handling of the instruments during the previous crown as I felt during this cavity treatment.
"It might be dangerous if you do it so roughly ・ ・ ？ like that."
Even with her eyes closed during treatment, she could feel the doctor's breathing, sighing, and careful handling of the instruments.

In the case of the previous crown, he sighed when he had to re-fit the crown after it had been fitted, and
when he was grinding with sharp instruments, I could feel that he was irritated and wondered "Is everything all right ・ ・? I remember feeling uneasy.

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#21

6、 This dental office has rows and rows of patient chairs, each separated only by a shelf, so the patients next to me can hear everything we are saying.
This time I sat in the patient chair closest to the waiting room.

After the treatment, the doctor said in an inaudibly low voice
"I know you can't hear me now because you are under anesthesia, but in 2 ， 3 days the pain will be..."
where ？ there is no subject ・ ・.　But I thought it must be about the treatment area, because I just finished treatment.

Unlike his small voice earlier, he speaks louder,
"I opened two of them, and as Mr. Drill said, ！ ！ they were both cavities ！."

He then explained to me, looking at the pictures taken during the treatment,
that if I flossed the treated area, it would bleed, but it would get better in a few days, so I should not worry ！.

I thought, "Oh, you were talking about flossing earlier," but I was wrong.

After the anesthesia wore off after I got home, for some reason my untreated tongue hurt.　　I had injured it with a drill and it was bleeding.
The side of my tongue was injured and it hurt when it hit my teeth while eating and talking.
I was only concerned about the pain in my tongue, so I noticed the 1 cm wound in my gums after it almost turned into a mouth sore.

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