Atlanta Injury Lawyers Blog

As an Atlanta Dental Malpractice Attorney, I receive many calls from people injured in the dentist's chair. Some are injured during wisdom tooth extraction, others are injured from nerve block injections and still others suffer their nerve injury after receiving a new dental implant. Most ask some form of the same question: "Will my dental nerve injury get better." The answer, unfortunately is, "It depends."

The most common dental nerve injuries are to the lingual nerve (most likely symptom being a numb tongue), the mental nerve (most likely accompanied by a numb lip) and the inferior alveolar nerve (most commonly associated with numb lip and gums). Regardless of the nerve injured, the key to reversing the nerve damage is timely treatment. The longer one goes without the feeling in your lip, cheek, gum or tongue coming back, the more likely that the injury will be permanent. If the nerve damage is identified and treated in a timely manner, some cases of nerve damage can be repaired with microneurosurgery.

As an attorney who handles many Georgia dental malpractice cases, it concerns me greatly when clients suffer from permanent nerve damage. These are particularly tough injuries to live with and they affect your life every day in many ways that are not apparent until you suffer this type of injury.