Undiagnosed Tooth Decay

Claim Compensation

If you think that your NHS dentist is not carrying out the full treatment that you require in order to have a healthy mouth then we can look at your situation and advise accordingly. You may have a claim for undiagnosed tooth decay and can receive compensation to have all the treatment that you need clinically.

You could be able to claim for an amount running into several thousand pounds.

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When do you have a claim?

There are certain tell tale signs to be aware of, if you think your dentist is not giving you the full level of clinical care for a health mouth. Some of these are explained below.

  • One of these is where you go to see your new dentist instead of your regular dentist and are told that you need a lot of treatment. This could be that your teeth have decay which have not been treated or fillings are breaking down which need treatment. Another common scenario is where you have had crowns done and the crowns now have gaps and decay underneath them which will require treatment.
  • You may need emergency treatment frequently and this could be for the same issue or different ones in succession. And when you go to see a different emergency dentist they notice that despite going regularly to your normal dentist, there are many problems they highlight to you.
  • With many NHS dentists going private you may feel that you are suddenly receiving more treatment privately than you were on the NHS. This could be problems that should have been picked up when you were an NHS patient and only are now getting picked up instead.
  • Some patients are on dental plans such as Denplan or Dencover and although you pay into the Plan every month, you receive little or no dental treatment over many years despite having problems. If a problem does occur it seems to get “patched up” or you are given antibiotics or even a free tube of Sensodyne toothpaste. You somehow sense that you're not receiving the full care.
  • Undiagnosed tooth decay can occur both under the NHS and private dental care.

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Frequently Asked Questions

 Most decay in a patient’s mouth goes undetected and the patient does not even know anything is wrong. This is because early tooth decay does not produce any sensitivity or pain whatsoever. It is only in the latter stages when the decay spreads close to the nerve/pulp of a tooth that problems will arise. These symptoms include sensitivity to hot, sweet and cold things. Later on if an abscess forms then the tooth can become painful to bite on or the gum swells up.

Eventually the nerve can become infected and the tooth has to be lost if an abscess forms. The tooth with decay also becomes so weak that it cannot be filled anymore.  Some tooth abscesses can be only treated by a root canal treatment to avoid extraction.

Decay inside any tooth can occur very quickly within a matter of weeks or can progress very slowly over many months. Dentists will offer to monitor early decay as there is evidence to show that early decay can be arrested or even reversed using the correct oral hygiene procedures and using fluoride topically.  If tooth decay is extensive than it should be treated immediately as the sooner it is treated the better the chance that your tooth can be saved instead of being extracted.