a dentist sued for leaving a drill bit in the patient's mouth
An American dentist was sued by a patient who said he left a steel tip of 2.5 cm in right maxillary sinus after extraction teeth in 2008, reported the web site of St. Pertersburg Times newspaper.
According to the claim for damages, the patient Donna Delgado, 35, began experiencing dizziness, sinusitis, nasal pain and bleeding shortly after undergoing the operation and has been unable for a year to care for their children and keep employment.
apparently was treated later at a hospital where they detected the presence of metal objects.
Delgado said in the lawsuit that the dentist who attended, Ralph Eichtaedt of Dental Health Group, recommended that he undergo a mouth operation to remove the two bad teeth, which women did two weeks later.
Delgado's attorney said a simple test to follow-up X-rays had detected the metal piece was lodged in the maxillary sinus of his client.
Instead, he said, Delgado was sent home on several occasions and was told at the dental center to stop complaining.
Delgado was treated by emergency last July at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, on the west coast, where he was subjected to a magnetic scan painfully shifted from the object inside his head and could have killed , according to counsel.
Finally, last August, surgeons removed the drill, but the woman has not yet recovered completely from the trauma.
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