Lingual Braces: Stories

Did you remove the post in Yelp? Did this alleged orthodontist refund your cost for the miserable braces? You can sue for pain, depression, and suffering, disfigurement as you perceive such, and your cost for remedying this ortho's or dentist's malpractice. At this point, I'm not going to initiate litigation because I loathe shysters as much as I loathe quacks. I will instead go the dental board route (probably useless) or go to small claims court and represent myself although the amount I've spent on three years of misery exceeds the typical "small claims" parameters. I also posted on Angie's List.

Hello, Sonia. I'll bet the orthodontist, and I use the assignation sardonically, who ruined my life had only applied lingual braces a few times. Why any medical board will allow these people to advertise that they apply lingual braces is a testament to the irresponsibility and incompetence of the board. Good luck getting a medical board to do anything beneficial for the patient. I think the only action that will garner any benefit to either one of us will be litigation.

Who is your dentist if you don't mind me asking.

Thanks for replying. Before I made the dreadful mistake of going to this "orthodontist" who claimed he knew how to apply lingual braces but could only give me one reference, I created a checklist of the pros and cons of both lingual braces and Invisalign. This orthodontist would not put his responses in writing regarding the pros and cons of either. In fact, on many occasions during that Kafkaesque year of 2008 -- 2009, I would write questions for him to answer pertaining to my treatment, and he would ignore them. So many clues I shouldn't have ignored. I should have demanded the first week that these Mengelian devices were applied that they be removed. I also made the HUGE mistake of paying for this Marat Sade treatment in advance. As of today, I'm still suffering with a speech impediment, a new development of food sticking to my teeth, an overbite which didn't exist before this egregious mistake, and nerve pain while having just returned to teach English as a second language full time in order to have health insurance that will pay for the pain meds!