Re: Drill Wrong Tooth Tufts Clinic


"Mr. J. Breen" <jay234wer-craigslist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The third molar, the wisdom tooth, on the lower right was to be prepped
for
a gold crown. The tooth was numbered 31 on the chart because teeth 29 and
30
had been extracted some years previously leaving a one tooth gap in their
place. The associate professor who was told that 29 and 30 had been
extracted when he reviewed the work of the student who did the
examination,
decided to leave the chart with the second and third molar numbered as 30
and 31. The student, four months after the examination, started the crown
preparation on 31, making his "honest mistake" of operating on the second
molar not the wisdom tooth. He knew he had made a mistake after, say, ten
minutes of whir with the instrument at high speed. He damaged a tooth
which
was fine, without a filling or need for one. While I said Tufts should put
a
crown on the damaged tooth, the professor and a prosthodontist recommended
a
composite restoration which was done. A dean is to give me a five-year
written guarantee.
What should I expect of Tufts?



Four weeks later: After operating on the wrong tooth, Tufts has said
it will replace its repair of the immediate damage with a crown if the
repair, multiple composite fillings, fails within five years.
Tufts' opinion is at http://mysite.verizon.net/vzet3wk8/.

I did agree to a composite restoration on the recommendation of the
practice coordinator and of the consulting prosthodontist. I did agree
that Tufts' responsibility for its damage would be for five years.
I did not agree its responsibility is limited to the composite. The
tooth had lasted ~sixty years without a dental operation until Tufts cut
into it in multiple locations. Since Tufts has examined the damage it
did, yet won't take won't take responsibility for the damaged tooth for
even five years manifests an expectation of failure based on its
professional
knowledge. Reprehensible, but this is my layman's opinion.

In a separate matter, I have told each student that the gap in my right jaw
is two missing teeth, what I would now identify as a second pre-molar
and first molar. When the present student did his examination four months
before his mistake, the practice coordinator reviewed the examination at
chairside with my statement that the gap was two missing teeth. He said
the gap was better charted as a single tooth. Even as the mistaken
operation
on the second molar was being entered onto my chart, he said the charting
was correct. The dean's initial's on the opinion at the link above ratifies
the
practice coordinator's charting. I know I have four wisdom teeth. What
difference does it make that in Tufts' opinion I don't have a tooth 32?


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