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Visiting the dentist is something people are generally apprehensive about. People pay out of pocket for expensive treatments, usually when in pain or distress. Dentists have a duty of care to patients to make sure they don’t come away from treatment worse than when they came in. If a dentist have acted negligently with you in their care, and caused you to suffer a loss, you may be entitled to claim medical negligence compensation.
3,000 dental patients being contacted after dentist re-uses equipment on them
Posted: 20 October 2015
Posted in: Dental Negligence, Medical Negligence
A total of 3,000 dental patients are being contacted following concerns over a Cardiff dentist’s infection control procedures. Mark Roberts, who worked at Splott Road Dental Surgery from 1989 to February 2015, was found by a whistleblower to be re-using equipment between patients. The dentist admitted that he had re-used syringe cartridges and root canal surgery files, and said that he deeply regretted his care ‘lapses’. Health bosses are now contacting all 3,000 of his former patients. Cardiff and the Vales University Health Board and Public Health Wales have opened…
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