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Dental Implants

January 31, 2019

A question which is often asked by solicitors of experts is whether an implant is a viable option for a missing tooth, and if it is, then how long will the implant last. Many experts feel that implants will last a lifetime. In fact, if we look 10 to 15 years ago, they expected a 90% success rate in the region of 10 to 15 years. However more recently, one read more

Breach of Care and Causation

January 2, 2018

Breach of Care Before any case commences, a patient must prove there was a breach of duty of care in failing to reach the standard of care expected and that they suffered harm/losses as a result (causation), and that the harm was foreseeable and not to remote. The key issue is what the standard care pertaining to the time for that particular clinical situation was and whether the dentist did read more

Consent

November 20, 2017

There is a professional and ethical obligation to find out what our patients want to know as well as what you think they need to know. Going on from the Supreme Court judgment in the Montgomery case, there is now legal obligation to do the same. Consent is not a matter of bombarding the patient with technical information or a smorgasbord of choices that are either specifically related to the read more

The Dental Litigation Landscape

November 20, 2017

Dentists are now twice likely to be sued than they were 10 years ago according to figures from Dental Protection. This is despite reports from the Care Quality Commission that dental patients are at lower risk than those being seen by any of the health provider. Expert witnesses, however, now operate in a regulatory and legal environment. It is much more onerous than it was 10 years ago. Not only read more

Welcome to LegalMEx

November 2, 2017

A medical legal agency provides Solicitors and the Court of Law with the specific medical reporting services of medical experts in the relevant field required to help resolve medical litigation cases. One of the biggest problems facing the legal profession currently is the inability to find suitable experts for a case. We at LegalMEx know how difficult it can be sourcing the right medical expert. According to research conducted for read more

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