£15,700 pay out

Geoff Pithouse, 38, from the north area of the city, was a patient of the Windsor Place Dental Surgery since 2005. He has recently won a legal action against four of its dentists for their severe neglect and indolence in the handling of his treatment. The case, which was successfully settled out of court for £15,700 following an 18 month battle, was brought against Dr Chitre, Dr Aviss-Monro, Dr Toteva and Dr Malby after Mr Pithouse was found to have been treated inadequately by all four dentists while under their care. 

As a result of the dentists’ poor treatment, Mr Pithouse has lost a tooth and was forced to endure a series of lengthy remedial procedures for tooth decay, poor root canal treatments and replacement fillings. Following all these corrective treatments, he will still have to endure procedures throughout his life; such was the scale of the dentists’ negligence.

Associate solicitor, Heather Owen at the Dental Law Partnership, said: “It’s a dentist’s responsibility to identify and treat disease in a patient’s mouth. In this case, all four dentists at Windsor Place Dental Surgery failed on multiple occasions to recognise the presence of tooth decay as well as other dental issues in a timely manner - which was then compounded by the lack of skill and precision during My Pithouse’s remedial treatments.