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Oleg Matvejev, an attorney-at-law at LEADELL Pilv Law Office, provided comments at the request of a journalist from the publication Postimees on issues related to dental care litigation
In practice, it is not uncommon for patients to be dissatisfied with the dental care provided. There may be various reasons for this, such as serious health complications, medical errors, poor communication between the doctor and the patient, the patient’s high expectations of the treatment and the doctor, and the patient’s other health problems.
A patient who had implants placed contacted the Postimees editorial office. The patient believes that the implants were responsible for the terrible pain, inflammation, fever, and the patient’s general critical condition.
The dental clinic that placed the implant does not consider itself responsible for the situation that has arisen.
A Postimees journalist contacted Oleg Matvejev, a attorney-at-law at LEADELL Pilv Law Office, to clarify the legal situation. He provided an overview of specific publicly available court decisions on dental care, such as what the patient must prove and what must be proven in court at the dental clinic, and what role an expert’s opinion plays in such disputes.
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