Nerve Damage After Dental Work Claims Solicitors in Manchester
Has your mouth felt numb or painful since you’ve had a dental procedure?
Has your mouth felt numb or painful since you’ve had a dental procedure?
Those symptoms can be a sign of nerve damage after dental work. If your dentist failed to take the right precautions, you may have the right to claim compensation.
Our solicitors have recovered compensation for clients left with permanent numbness, loss of taste, and chronic pain following negligent dental treatment. Call us today on 0161 877 1066 for free, no-obligation advice on whether you have a case.
Two branches of the trigeminal nerve are most at risk during dental work:
Both nerves sit close to the areas where dentists work. That’s why nerve injuries can happen, and why your dentist must take care to protect your nerves when they work on your teeth.
Some injuries do settle on their own within a few weeks. If yours has not settled, seek a second opinion from an independent dentist. And speak to our solicitors at the same time, so you know if you have a legal claim and could be entitled to compensation.
It depends on how severe the injury is. Even minor nerve irritation can take a while to disappear, but it should go away within a few weeks. More significant damage may take several months to improve, and some people are left with symptoms that never go away. Where the nerve has been severed or permanently compressed, the effects of the nerve damage can be lifelong.
Some dental procedures carry a higher risk of nerve injury than others. That risk alone doesn’t make your dentist negligent. What counts is whether your dentist took reasonable steps to identify the risk of nerve damage and protect you from it before and during your treatment.
Wisdom tooth removal is one of the most frequent causes of nerve damage after dental surgery. The roots of lower wisdom teeth sit close to both the inferior alveolar and lingual nerves. Your dentist should take X-rays or a CT scan before an extraction and explain the nerve risk to you clearly.
If they didn’t do that, or if they should have referred you to a specialist and did not, your dentist may have been negligent. Nerve damage after wisdom tooth extraction is a common dental negligence nerve injury case our solicitors handle.
Nerve damage during implant surgery usually happens when a dentist drills too deeply into the jaw and strikes the inferior alveolar nerve. Damage can also occur if they place an implant that is too long and presses on the nerve. Proper imaging before the procedure is essential for preventing this. If your dentist skipped that step and you suffered nerve damage, you may have grounds for a claim.
During a root canal, the liquid used to clean the tooth can injure nerves if it enters the surrounding tissue. Instruments pushed past the end of the root can also touch and damage the inferior alveolar nerve.
Most personal injury claims follow a similar process, whether you were hurt at work, in a road traffic accident, while cycling, or in a public place. But no two claims are exactly the same.
A personal injury claim can arise when someone else’s negligence causes your injury. This could be a careless driver, an employer, or a business that failed to fix a dangerous condition. But whether you have grounds to make a claim depends on how the accident happened and who is responsible. Not every accident necessarily leads to a valid personal injury claim.
Poor dental care can leave you in pain, facing further treatment, and with substantial unexpected costs. If that’s happened to you, you may have the right to make a dental negligence claim.
Your dentist was supposed to fix a problem. Instead, you’re dealing with the consequences of dental treatment that left you worse off, like suffering constant pain or needing further procedures. You want to know: do I have a dental negligence claim?
Local anaesthetic injections rarely cause lasting nerve damage. Most cases of tingling or other symptoms after an injection settle quickly. You could have a claim if you experienced permanent damage and your dentist did not use the proper technique.
Preparing the teeth next to a bridge requires great care. Where a dentist works too aggressively on adjacent teeth, nerve damage can result. If you have been left with numbness or pain following bridge or crown work, you could have a dental bridge negligence claim.
Your dentist is negligent when their treatment falls below the standard you would expect from a competent professional. In nerve damage cases, that usually means one of the following:
That last point is critical. Before carrying out any procedure, your dentist must tell you about the risks in plain terms. They should give you enough time to ask questions and a real opportunity to consider other options. This process is called obtaining informed consent, and it is a legal requirement for medical procedures.
If your dentist did not follow it, you may have a dental nerve injury claim even if the procedure itself was carried out properly.
Dental nerve damage compensation claims depend on the severity of your injury and whether the effects are temporary or permanent. Permanent nerve damage means the effects could last a lifetime, and your compensation should reflect that.
Your claim may include compensation for:
Our solicitors will give you a clear and honest view of what your case could be worth once we have the full picture of your injury.
A consent form records that you agreed to go ahead with treatment. It does not give your dentist permission to carry out that treatment negligently. It also doesn’t override their duty to explain the risks to you fully beforehand. If the form was signed without a proper explanation of the nerve damage risk, our solicitors can advise you on whether you have a claim.
If you didn’t realise at the time that the treatment had caused your injury, the three years may run from the date you became aware.
Children are treated differently under the law. If you were under 18 when the treatment took place, the three-year period does not begin until your 18th birthday. A parent or guardian can bring a claim on your behalf before then.
We advise starting the process as soon as you can. Evidence is easier to obtain while events are fresh in your mind, and your dental records will be more readily available.
Starting a claim can feel daunting, especially when you’re still dealing with the effects of your injury. Our solicitors make the process as straightforward and stress-free as possible.
The first step is to call us on 0161 877 1066 or contact us through our website for a free consultation.
We’ll listen to what happened and tell you whether we think you have a claim. If we take it on, we’ll request your dental records, instruct an independent expert to assess your injury, and build the evidence needed to show your dentist fell below the required standard of care.
With a 95% success rate and over £43 million recovered for clients, our dental negligence solicitors have the experience to give your claim the best possible chance. We handle dental nerve damage no-win-no-fee claims. You pay nothing upfront, and if your claim does not succeed, you owe us nothing.
Our team of solicitors will handle your case personally.
We are based in Manchester and all our work is done in-house.
Our solicitors are fully trained and qualified to handle your case.
We are dedicated to winning your case and there are no hidden fees.
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