Dental Malpractice

Imagine being 28 years old and going to the dentist for a relatively routine procedure to have a wisdom tooth extracted when instead the end result following the procedure is lifelong numbness and tingling, accompanied by continuous, unending excruciating pain in the lower part of your face and mouth. For Plaintiff Kerry Stolte this was more than something to be imagined, this was her reality after the Defendant Dentist M. James Fagan, III severed her lingual nerve during a dental procedure that was simply meant to remove her wisdom tooth.

A DeKalb County Georgia State Court jury rendered a $ 2.8 Million Dollar verdict in favor of a Plaintiff against the employer of Dentist Dr. James Cauley of Coast Dental of Georgia. In February, 2008, Haley Buice, Plaintiff, age 33 and a mother with four children, began treatment at Defendant Coast Dental of Georgia and was treated by their employee dentist Dr. Cauley.

This is a follow up my last blog post titled, “Important Questions to Ask to Determine if there was a Deviation in the Standard of Dental Care in Georgia when Treating a Patient Requesting Dental Implants ~ part one.” The following are more of some of the important questions that should be asked to determine if the Standard of Care was followed when Treating Patient Requesting Dental Implants:

In my last three blog posts part one, part two, and part three, I discussed the recent ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court involving when the Statute of Limitations should be tolled in a particular case. The case in point was a case that involved a woman who was receiving dental care for implants and later for a prosthetic.

This is the further analysis of the case and the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court’s final decisions that were discussed in my prior blog post titled, “The Georgia Supreme Court rules that the Statute of Limitations was Tolled when a Dental patient Seeking the advice of a Second Dentist who was a part of the original treatment, and/or performed part of the original treatment, may have begun to realize that the First Dentist(s) committed Dental Malpractice ~ part two.”

This is the further analysis of the case and the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court’s final decisions that were discussed in my prior blog post titled, “The Georgia Supreme Court rules that the Statute of Limitations was Tolled when a Dental patient Seeking the advice of a Second Dentist who was a part of the original treatment, and/or performed part of the original treatment, may have begun to realize that the First Dentist(s) committed Dental Malpractice ~ part one.”

On June 16, 2014, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the Georgia Court of Appeals decision to reverse the trial court’s granting of summary judgement in a case whereby the trail court held that the statutory period of limitation was not tolled after the Plaintiff consulted a second dentist in a potential Dental Malpractice Case. The case is S13G1733. GALLANT, et al. v. MacDOWELL .