Legal Assistance When Errors By A Dentist Lead To Serious Injury
Several times a month, we hear from New Orleans area residents who have obtained care from a dental professional that they allege was negligent, incompetent, or reckless. This harmful and sometimes disfiguring “care” can often be considered Dental Malpractice.
Dental malpractice occurs when a dental professional fails to accurately identify and correct difficulties relating to oral well-being or when that same professional injures you during a dental procedure by their carelessness or recklessness.
When Can I Claim Dental Malpractice Compensation In New Orleans?
Like doctors and other healthcare professionals, dentists and orthodontists have a responsibility to impart a level of care to you, their patient, from whom they must also acquire informed consent about any procedures they wish to use.
If one or both of these aspects of care are missing, you may be eligible to claim financial compensation for any harm they have done to you.
Such negligent work can include errors or mistakes during dental or gum surgery, delaying necessary treatment or interventions, or failing to make a diagnosis when one was obvious or making the wrong diagnosis, leading to harm or unnecessary work.
How Can I Make A Dental Malpractice Claim Against My New Orleans Dentist?
In order to have a successful dental malpractice claim against your dentist or other dental practitioner, your dental malpractice lawyer will need to make sure your case meets two essential criteria.
- First, the dentist, orthodontist or other dental care practitioner must have behaved in a way that a practical and prudent practitioner would not have. This could be carelessly, recklessly, or maliciously.
- Second, their actions must have caused you significant injury or other harm.
To prove both of these criteria, it is vital that you keep as much documentation as possible. The better the evidence, the easier it will be for us, as your dental malpractice litigation attorneys, to establish cause if we have to take it in front of a jury.
That is why, as a patient, you should keep a clear record of all dental services you have received and note any resulting negative symptoms as a result of those services.
As long as your case meets both, a skilled dental malpractice lawyer will be able to help you bring a claim against the guilty practitioner to obtain compensation for the harm caused.
What Can I Obtain Compensation For In A New Orleans Dental Malpractice Claims?
Dental surgery is expensive enough when everything goes well, but when things go badly, the costs can truly spiral out of control. You can require severe medical treatment, including reparative surgeries or further dental work to correct the mistakes made by a negligent or incompetent dentist.
A dental malpractice claim or lawsuit allows you to, with the help of a skilled attorney, obtain compensation for all of these losses, harms, and more.
- The costs of any immediate medical care, such as additional surgery or hospitalization, caused by the dentist’s negligence.
- The costs of any long-term, ongoing, or future medical care related to the incident.
- Income lost due to a temporary or ongoing inability to work.
- Emotional harm, including psychological trauma from disfigurement or other ill effects of the dentist's malpractice.
Identifying and adding up all these harms to reach a full and fair account of all the compensation you deserve is just one of the many difficult and important tasks you will need a dental malpractice attorney or law firm to handle.
And for all dental malpractice cases, our firm operates on a contingency fee basis – meaning we do not charge for our services unless we secure a settlement for you or are successful in the courtroom.
You will also not have to pay for any costs or expenses related to your case if there is no award or settlement.
Why Choose The Gertler Law Firm For Your Dental Malpractice Claim?
Dental malpractice claims are quite confusing and tough for the average person to navigate. They involve a complicated presentation of facts that require relationships and obligations to be legally clarified and causal connections to be established between the negligent act and the harm inflicted.
Fortunately, you do not have to do it alone. While you focus on medical recovery and psychological healing after your dental disaster, let the personal injury attorneys at the Gertler Law Firm prepare every aspect of your dental malpractice claim.
Not only will we ensure you have an airtight case for maximum compensation, but our dental malpractice lawyers will also streamline and facilitate the entire process to spare you the stress and strain.
The earlier you contact us and fill us in on the details of your case, the stronger your dental malpractice claim will end up being.
If You Have Suffered Under A Dentist In New Orleans: Call A Local Dental Malpractice Lawyer
If you believe a dental treatment you have suffered from may be the cause of dental malpractice or neglect, then please contact us immediately.
As Dental Malpractice Attorneys, we will help you navigate this process and secure financial compensation for all the harm, injury, and trauma you have suffered.
Get in touch with us right now by calling (504) 527-8767 or reach out online so our attorneys can begin the dental malpractice claim process.
The call or meeting will always be confidential – and absolutely FREE.
