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Dental practice pays out £5,000 to family after child's chipped tooth leaves her with 'witch-like' chin
A young girl has been awarded over £5,000 compensation after a chipped tooth turned into a massive abscess.
Emily Smith’s mum is now warning fellow parents to push for better dental care.
Her ordeal began when she was just six years old after a visit to the dentist to treat her tooth, which was damaged while she was playing a recorder.
She was reportedly prescribed regular doses of fluoride by Darwenside Dental Practice, near Blackburn, to treat the problem.
Two years later, her mum Catherine Richards noticed that the little girl’s face had begun to grow into an unusual, elongated shape with a “witch-like” chin.
Emily had developed a severe abscess, which allegedly went unnoticed by the dentist's practice and was the start of a nightmare that would see her hospitalised.
She has now been given £5,400 compensation.
“It all happened very quickly,” the mum told NeedToKnow.co.uk.
“My husband said ‘Have you noticed Emily’s face is changing?’, so we went to the GP.
“She had chipped the tooth whilst playing the recorder and we regularly attended the [dental] practice to have fluoride applied to her teeth.
“We were referred to hospital, where X-rays confirmed she was suffering from an abscess in her mouth at the site of the tooth she had previously chipped.
“She was put on IV antibiotics and underwent an operation under general anaesthetic to drain the abscess.
“It was very soon after the operation that Emily’s face became noticeably red and swollen and she had to be put on further IV drips to treat the infection, which resulted in the four days in hospital.
“It was a really frightening experience for Emily and me as a parent.”
The tooth was originally chipped in 2015 and the hospital visit took place in 2017.
But sadly, this was not the end of the child’s tee
2024-03-14
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