{"id":143881,"date":"2021-11-05T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143881"},"modified":"2021-11-05T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:47:13","slug":"nightmare-dentist-trip-leaves-woman-unable-to-talk-with-fractured-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/nightmare-dentist-trip-leaves-woman-unable-to-talk-with-fractured-jaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare dentist trip leaves woman unable to talk with fractured jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman was hospitalised for five days after her local dentist fractured her jaw during a routine procedure. <\/p>\n

Chelsea Leck visited Dr Balinder Sangha at Lanehouse Road Dental surgery in Thornaby after suffering from toothache in 2018.<\/p>\n

Leck said: "One day I started getting an awful pain where I\u2019d previously had a filling, I was worried it may be cracked so I booked an emergency appointment at the practice to get it looked at.<\/p>\n

"I was told there was decay under the filling and advised it would need to be removed. <\/p>\n

"To my surprise, I wasn\u2019t offered any other option, and it is only now I know I could have had a root canal instead. I booked myself in with Dr Sangha a few weeks later to get my tooth removed.<\/p>\n

"I was nervous about the extraction, but was looking forward to not being in any pain! Dr Sangha numbed my mouth, but it really hurt when she was trying to take out my tooth.<\/p>\n

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"She reassured me it was just pressure and her assistant held my head down whilst she continued to pull at my tooth."<\/p>\n

Lech suddenly heard a loud popping sound as the tooth came out \u2013 but ended up leaving the dentist in more pain than when she went in.<\/p>\n

Her teeth weren't aligned right and within a few hours, her face became swollen and bruised.<\/p>\n

She went to A&E after emergency dentists were unavailable and the reality of her dental problems were revealed.<\/p>\n

Lech added: "The hospital gave me an X-Ray and to my surprise confirmed I had a fractured jaw, I was in shock!<\/p>\n

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