Dental Malpractice Lawyer

Overview

Dental Negligence

At GMP Law, our team of medical negligence lawyers have significant experience managing dental malpractice claims.

Our dental negligence solicitors will help you achieve maximum justice and compensation in the minimum time. We also ensure that our cost agreements are simple and work in your favour. Through our no-win, no-fee agreement, we cover all medical expenses and disbursements for medical reports up-front. We also offer a 90-day risk-free guarantee trial of our expert legal services.

If you’re considering pursuing a dental malpractice case, book a free, confidential consultation with one of our solicitors. This will provide the opportunity for our team to assess your case and guide you accordingly, as well as answer any questions that you may have.

Book a free consultation online, or call us on 1800 004 878.

Years Experience

Winning successful cases for our clients.

98%

SUCCESS RATE

Winning Medical Negligence Compensation

35,000

CLAIMS WON

That translates to billions of dollars for our clients.

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Process

What does Dental Negligence include?

When looking at a claim for Dental Malpractice, our medical negligence lawyers will investigate your claim with you.

Usually, our lawyers initially cover the following questions:

Did the dentist act in accordance with standards that other dentists would have utilised?
Was the patient provided with informed consent and informed of the reasonable risks involved in each procedure?
Was the investigation and treatment reasonably necessary?
Are the damages sustained by the claimant/ injured person sufficiently serious to justify bringing a complex and expensive medical negligence action?
Did the dentist fail to adequately diagnose and provide sufficient dental treatment?
Did the dentist fail to use reasonable skill and care by failing to refer the patient for specialist treatment?
Did the delay in treatment cause additional aggravation and damage?

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GErard Malouf & Partners

Dental Malpractice Lawyers

Areas of dental negligence Gerard Malouf and partners can handle on your behalf include:

Problems with dental implants involving cosmetic issues, infection, failed bone grafts, substandard quality implants and/or failure to warn of complications;
Cosmetic dentistry issues. Dental professionals often advertise incredible results, yet in reality, the patient is dissatisfied with their cosmetic appearance. This dissatisfaction is commonly due to changes in their jawline or problems with eating and speaking, burns to the exterior of the face nerve damage, among other causes.
Nerve damage can be caused due to excessive force, failure to insert instruments in the correct location et cetera.
Periodontal disease and restorative dentistry – a dental professional may fail to adequately assess and diagnose treatment. As a result of this form of negligence, the dental problem is exacerbated.

A claim against a dental practitioner can be further thought of in the following two categories: medical negligence and medical malpractice. A negligence claim refers to insufficient treatment without malicious intent — generally due to incompetence. A dental malpractice claim, however, differs from negligence claims as they may involve a dental professional — or related medical professional — who acted with the intention to harm.

A medical negligence claim and a medical malpractice claim are treated differently, yet both generally warrant compensation for both the psychological and economic damages incurred from the dental injury.

It’s important to have an expert dental malpractice lawyer — or negligence solicitor, depending on your case — who is able to engage highly specialised medico-legal dental specialists to provide testimony.

At GMP Law, we have run hundreds of cases successfully against dental professionals over many years, as supported by members of the dental profession who are prepared to go up against other defendants and aid in upholding the rights of our clients.

Unfortunately, we often can’t help a lot of people with genuine cases against dentists because of the extensive costs associated with litigation. However, we will endeavour to do our best every time by giving complimentary advice to a new client about the best avenue to take, whether it be trying to negotiate a result directly with the dental practitioner in question or initiate formal legal proceedings where the claim is sufficiently large. We may also refer the matter to the health care complaints commission (HCCC) for investigation.

Each dental practitioner must have up-to-date professional indemnity insurance and accordingly can be sued even if the dentist has no personal assets or becomes bankrupt.

Our speciality is achieving the maximum possible justice for your claim. Phone us now on 1800 004 878 to book your free consultation with one of our personal injury lawyers.