$900,000 SETTLEMENT – Dental Malpractice – Nerve Injury Caused When Dentist Used Too Much Pressure During Root Canal With Calcium Hydroxide

Our client, a 61-year-old woman, had a root canal performed by her dentist, who she had treated with for decades.  We claimed that the dentist used too much pressure while applying the calcium hydroxide during the root canal procedure.   As a result, the calcium hydroxide went beyond the apex of the tooth and into the mandibular canal.  The dentist referred her to an oral surgeon, who performed surgery to remove as much of the calcium hydroxide from the mandibular canal as possible.   However, our client still suffered from permanent symptoms including pain, numbness, and that she had difficulty with chewing certain foods.   At the first mediation shortly before litigation was filed, the insurance carrier only offered $150,000, but after a year and a half of litigation, depositions of all the parties, and several months before the start of trial, the case settled for $900,000 at a second mediation.

 

Bill worked with a medical illustrator to create a demonstrative aid that was used at the mediation and would have been used at trial to show the broken instrument inside our client.