Deckard
Super Freak
I'm going to be meeting with a lawyer this week and just kind of wondering what to expect.
Quick background. I had some fillings put in about 2 years ago when I didn't have insurance. He used silver amalgam fillings because they were cheaper but never asked me if this was ok. I was a little upset when I realized they were silver but I didn't complain immediately because I just had too much on my plate and at least my teeth were fixed.
So almost immediately I have severe pain in my entire mouth and I can't really tell where it's originating because it spread so quickly. I went back and saw him about a dozen times over the next year and he kept insisting it must have been this or that tooth and he'd repair, drill, take x-rays etc.(still no insurance) Eventually he started telling me I probably had some kind of nerve damage.
Well this past week, I saw a new dentist, an old friend of my father's out of state. I sat down, opened up, he took one look without so much as touching anything or even needing his mirror and said that it was obvious I had a Mercury allergy and that's what was causing the pain. I have white patches surrounded by very red areas on the inside of my mouth right where it touches those filled teeth on either side. I need to have those fillings removed and also had about six grand of unnecessary surgery and root canals etc done because this other guy couldn't i.d. the allergic reaction in like 12 tries. It's also possible that because it's gone on for so long, it may have caused permanent nerve damage. It's given me insane headaches, bad rashes etc
Any advice for me moving forward at this point would be appreciated.
Quick background. I had some fillings put in about 2 years ago when I didn't have insurance. He used silver amalgam fillings because they were cheaper but never asked me if this was ok. I was a little upset when I realized they were silver but I didn't complain immediately because I just had too much on my plate and at least my teeth were fixed.
So almost immediately I have severe pain in my entire mouth and I can't really tell where it's originating because it spread so quickly. I went back and saw him about a dozen times over the next year and he kept insisting it must have been this or that tooth and he'd repair, drill, take x-rays etc.(still no insurance) Eventually he started telling me I probably had some kind of nerve damage.
Well this past week, I saw a new dentist, an old friend of my father's out of state. I sat down, opened up, he took one look without so much as touching anything or even needing his mirror and said that it was obvious I had a Mercury allergy and that's what was causing the pain. I have white patches surrounded by very red areas on the inside of my mouth right where it touches those filled teeth on either side. I need to have those fillings removed and also had about six grand of unnecessary surgery and root canals etc done because this other guy couldn't i.d. the allergic reaction in like 12 tries. It's also possible that because it's gone on for so long, it may have caused permanent nerve damage. It's given me insane headaches, bad rashes etc
Any advice for me moving forward at this point would be appreciated.