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Not asking directly to you, but in these cases is there (depending of the country) a way to make this kind of malpractice stop ? Organization to which to report

• projektfu 4y ago
  It's not yet considered malpractice. There is usually a standard of care, but that is not a clearly written standard. It's more like, "we think it is up to standard or not" in each case. I'm not a dentist but this is the way state boards work in my field (veterinary medicine) which is similar. Naturally they are more worried about practitioners who overlook problems than practitioners who are overly cautious. Malpractice would be if you had no evidence of a caries (exploratory, radiographic or other test) and you recommended a procedure anyway. That may have been the case, but usually they have varying opinions of whether a particular lucency on an x-ray representes a caries, or whether it should be filled. Or there is also a machine that is used to detect caries that are not always radiographically evident. So your dentist probably could claim it was there but other dentists wouldn't recommend filling until there was more evidence of a problem. Until the governing bodies or associations dictate what the go/no-go criteria are for filling, the dentists will have wide leeway to convince you either way.