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Dental procedures, particularly those involving oral surgery, may cause nerve damage as a result of surgical errors.. Nerve damage may be caused by a range of errors, such as improper extractions or negligent placement of dental implants. Such injuries can profoundly affect a patient’s quality of life, leading to physical pain, significant functional impairments and emotional distress. Damage might be…
Surgical procedures are meant to improve a patient’s health, but in some cases, they can lead to worsened medical conditions. Surgeons’ errors can have devastating consequences, ranging from infection, nerve damage and prolonged pain to permanent disability or even death. These errors may occur due to negligence, lack of proper training or insufficient preoperative planning. While not every negative surgical…
A catastrophic injury is a severe trauma that drastically affects essential body functions, such as mobility, cognitive ability and functionality of nerves and organs. Such injuries result in long-term or permanent pain, disability and diminishment of the victim’s quality of life. They also typically bring enormous expenses upon the victim and their family, such as the costs of medical treatment,…
Delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose and treat are all aspects of diagnosis error, which constitutes medical malpractice. If a serious injury or death resulted from a failure to diagnose or a misdiagnosis, the surviving family members may be able to sue the medical professionals responsible, including — Physicians Specialists Hospitals Private practices Is a diagnosis error always medical…
Root canals are common procedures performed in dentists’ offices or at practices specializing in endodontics. Every case presents its own set of challenges, however, and errors do occur. If one of those errors causes a serious dental nerve injury during a root canal, you may be able to sue the dentist or specialist. What is a root canal? Many patients…
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a hinge joint between the lower jaw and skull with a small disc between the bones. It facilitates opening and closing the mouth and moving the jaw from side to side. The TMJ is a very important joint, as it allows a person to eat, drink and talk. An injury or trauma to this body…
We’ve all heard the phrase, “the cure is worse than the disease.” The speaker is usually speaking figuratively about the difficult road to recovery after an illness or trauma, but in cases of medication error, this expression could be entirely accurate. Medication error occurs when a medical professional or pharmacy: Administers the wrong medication Administers the wrong dosage of medication…
If you have gone through a dental procedure that involved extractions, implants, or root canals and are suffering lasting numbness, paralysis, loss of sensation,loss of taste or diminished function, you may be able to sue for dental malpractice. Any alteration to feeling, sensation, taste or function in your mouth in the weeks and months following a dental procedure can be…
Accepted medical standards are the touchstone for determining whether medical errors were preventable and constitute medical malpractice. The same is true for the use of a vacuum extractor during delivery. When vacuum extractor injuries occur in Manhattan — and a vacuum extraction delivery (VAD) was performed but violated standard medical practices — medical malpractice grounds for a lawsuit may exist.…
Cephalohematoma is a medical condition that can occur in newborn babies, potentially leading to serious complications. When New York doctors violate medical standards of care, causing cephalohematoma or worse, grounds may exist to pursue a malpractice lawsuit. A serious medical condition, cephalohematoma involves localized bleeding between the periosteum (the connective tissue covering a bone) and the skull. It appears as a spot…