Kyle Padley

Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a real surge in patients choosing to travel abroad for dental treatment. Many drawn in by the promise of lower costs, shorter wait times, and the appeal of combining healthcare with a holiday. Dental Law deep dive into this topic here.

According to Google search data, online searches for “tooth pain” have increased by a staggering 460% since June 2010, with a growing number of people turning to the internet not just for advice, but in a desperate attempt to tackle the lack of dental services in this country themselves.

If you’re thinking about opening a claim against a dentist who has failed to provide the acceptable standard of care, you might be wondering, ‘What is classed as dental negligence?’ There are lots of different issues that can fall under this category, but crucially, to start a dental negligence claim, you must have directly suffered harm as a result of your dentist failing in their duty of care.