Dental botch up - what would you do?

[iamthecaptain]

Scenario - you have treatment at a private dental clinic and the assigned dentist seriously botched the job. The clinics director tells you the completed work has to be reversed and restored, and the dentist created additional problems with neighbouring teeth. To make matters worse the dentist breached their practicing rules, their conduct was actually criminal, they've been dismissed and the clinic reported the matter to the GDC. The practice apoligises profusely and tells you they will do everything to make it right (etc etc).

Apart from the obvious, what would you do?....

[Hoofy]

FFS annoying.

I'm speaking as a consumer/patient... I'd want to know what longer issues I can expect and even if they "do everything to make it right", will they be willing to deal with any issues that are now likely to occur as a result? Because if they've ruined perfectly good teeth meaning you'll now very likely be spending thousands in the future (root canal work, crowns etc) then that's really annoying.

Also, if you've had any kind of medical treatment that has affected the jaw (eg radiotherapy for the mouth, face, head or neck) then how will things be affected with the cockups and subsequent fix?

OTOH if your teeth are pretty bad all round (fillings on most teeth) then it is only a matter of time before you'd be needing to spend money on root canal and crowns etc. so I'd just let them do what they can and just accept that wherever they leave it is what's what.