Is It my Dentist's Fault That my Tooth Became Infected While Waiting for a Crown Placement?

With any dental procedures, you cannot predict every possible outcome. It is never the intent of the dentist to do something that would cause your tooth to get infected but anytime work is done on a tooth a negative outcome like this has a chance of occurring. 

No if the tooth was going to become infected it would of just after the crown was placed. With that logic why did you need the crown in the first place... Usually large filling or fracture neither are your dentist fault and in most cases its the patients poor diet and or poor home care good luck

 

 

Kevin Coughlin DMD, MBA, MAGD     CEO Baystate Dental PC

Teeth need crowns for reasons such as fracture,  decay , leaking old filings, and severe grinding, clinching, bite forces.... Dentist do not infect your teeth, the condition of the tooth does. Most of the time patients go to the dentist to fix what is already broken. Most people do not exercise  preventative dentistry. So then, when the dentist works on a tooth, it is as if " it is the last straw that broke the camel's back" , or so to say "opening a can of worms".

In order for a tooth to require a crown it already has to be in  pretty bad shape. So, sometimes a crown preparation is the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back". This is not unusual at all.

Sue Wendling DMD