I have been having a very long and horrible experience with
my long term dentist after paying to have 6 veneers top teeth to lengthen an already
straight smile. I paid for 6 e-max veneers because he told me that the affect on my own teeth would be minimal after having the molds done my
dentist decided I did not need temps.
I saw the wax up and it looked good, so another 2 weeks and
I had my apt to have the veneers done. When I got to the apt the day of
the veneer placement he showed me the veneers and they looked against the wax
up and then when he went to show me I made the mistake of sitting up-right and
then they fell of course to my shirt.
He sat me back and said not to worry they looked great and
went ahead, I trusted him.
As soon as he finished, I had a lot of pain in my right
canine and it felt like my tooth was being pulled and ripped out by
force, it was as though the veneer was tugging at my tooth it was done in a bridge. When he handed me the mirror I was devastated. The teeth on
the right side were crooked and appeared to be angled and placed incorrectly so that my canine was
positioned forward and more of a “front” tooth, it pointed directly toward my
lip and basically was piercing my inner cheek above my lips. The veneers are
connected and it felt as though he had just put braces on my teeth with the
canine being pulled forward by the veneers.
I complained and he said it was fine and became agitated and
after I complained some more and then finally told me to come back and make an apt and it would
be fixed.
My apt was 2 weeks from that same day and I had to deal with
that awful tooth, I play sports and if I were ever to be hit in the face this
would no doubt go through my cheek and scar me, porcelain is strong and this
was very much poking into my cheek.
He wanted a new set of molds done for a replacement of the three teeth on the right side, waited 2 weeks and when
I called to follow up I was asked to come in again and do another “mold” to replace
the replacement mold that we had just done. I am assuming my dentist
didn’t even send the second mold to the lab and discarded the ones that we had already taken. We had a wax up done, I am not sure why I needed to do molds yet again, and then again a 3rd time all while still being left in pain from ugliest veneer he could have placed on someone's teeth.
So, I had to go in and get a 3rd set of
impressions and now waited a further 2 weeks so now more than a month with a
painful tooth that was crooked and being tugged on by a badly placed veneer.
When the replacement set of veneers came in the teeth were
straight but in comparison were 80 percent smaller in size and length than the
side that placed on straight. My dentist at first disagreed and again argued and I told him that
no I could not accept those as they were much shorter and so he measured and sure
enough they were shorter. He suggested that we do yet another set of molds,
but this time with the side that I was unhappy with off, and he would use the
shorter ones as temps.
Removing those a week later was horrible and it felt more like an assault. He used a
mallet and bridge remover to try to “knock” them off and after several minutes of torturing by hammering the hell out of my teeth he
went on to the drill and from the drill to a pick that he used like a crowbar.
And finally after they were off and my gums were bleeding he took new molds and
then put the “temps” on which sure enough were much shorter and then placed on crooked yet again.
The next day one of the permanent veneers that were ok in appearance
on the left side broke at both sides of the bridge, simply made a cracking sound as I ate a sandwich and fell off, it was the tooth
between the canine and front tooth. A clean break at the connection
between the two and I suspect that hammering in my mouth for the long minutes did not
help the matter and loosened the bond. However, the veneer did not crack
or break but then, much to my horror I saw behind that veneer a hidden large drilled hole that
he had made under the gum line on that tooth. Several mm deep and across and deliberate, not filled ready to catch food and any debris that makes its way under the veneer at the gumline.
I know that this would be a future cavity just looking at
and it would have caused a tooth failure and to me it feels like malpractice,
it feels dubious. It is far too obvious to miss, it is not a nick it is a
straight drill hole into the tooth that is several mm deep.
I know I need it filled, I know that I can have the veneer
that fell off replaced or re-bonded and when replacement side comes in I know that whatever
comes in I may just have to have placed and run screaming from my dentist, but I am seriously considering
calling my lawyer. In fact I am going to seek out a new dentist, I want x-rays of my veneered teeth to see if he has made any other holes, I can also see that for some very odd reason he shortened my tooth so much that it is half the length that it used to be. I have no idea why he would do that, he has destroyed this tooth.
It has now been more than 2 months since I went in to
"enhance" my smile and have walked out with horrible teeth and pain, and since that
day I have endured a lot of problems, embarrassment and delays. That does
not include the drilled tooth that he covered up without filling it.
Please someone tell me that this normal, that these things
happen? That it is perfectly normal to drill a hole in a tooth and leave it unfilled. I feel as though he set my tooth up to fail and I feel that he
has deliberately made this a very long and painful process. What has
happened to “Do no harm”? Does this sound like something that should be
addressed by the dental board and a lawyer?Pictures are below in this google drive, thanks for help.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8FBUcNjRLoZU2VmSjNiUU1XU3c