Mum loses 'buckets of blood and almost dies' after common dental procedure
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A mum-of-three has been awarded a whopping £8,500 in compensation from her former dentist after a tooth extraction went horribly wrong. Saira Malik, 54, a civil servant from Surbiton, south-west London, suffered a fractured jaw and lost "buckets of blood" following the procedure at a local dental practice. The ordeal left her in intensive care and she was only able to consume liquids through a straw for months afterwards. Despite the traumatic experience, the dental practice owners who paid the settlement did not admit liability.
The practice has issued a statement disagreeing with the portrayal of events by the Dental Law Partnership, asserting their commitment to "pride in providing the highest standards of treatment and care to all (its) patients". Saira recounted her ordeal, describing the extraction as "traumatising".
"All you could see was just blood and blood and blood… it was continuous buckets of blood, gushing through," she said. "When I woke up in hospital, I was in the intensive care unit. I was on machines to stop the bleeding and I was told my jaw was fractured.".
Saira added: "I'm still traumatised, I still haven't been able to walk into a dentist since then – and that is a worry because I know I'll need to. Now I just don't know where to go and who to trust." Saira had been visiting the local dental practice since 2009 and saw various dentists over a decade.
