Dentist disaster in Budapest

Thank you for the words of support. I believe I have two optiions open now. One take them to ordinary court, with subsequent bills and no guarentee as the company argue that they should be fixing it.

I just cannot take the risk of more bad work and there are nerves just below the implant that if damaged could cause permanent paralysis. They also still claiming the work is ok!! I also bellieve are not insured for this complex work. Too many risks involved in going back.

Or go for the small claims court and the guy here has been very helpful and recons I will win. I will at least get a third of my money back.

I am deciding over the weekend.

I had sold my house and am lucky I have the money freed up to pay for the new work. I would hate it to happen to someone who had borrowed for this!! Anyone thinking of going abroad please be careful.

Fitzgeme,

I do not like losing €4077 euro plus flights plus hotel (over €5000 ) but they say I take responsibility if I do not allow them to do any further work.
They do not have an implantologist, only a young dentist but bring some man in. They refuse to give me details of their indemnity. Up until I said things were wrong they were so very nice. I hated saying to them that it was not ok thinking they would be upset!!!

I was stupid and feel now I want to cut my losses and move on. I tried to contact a few solicitoors in Budapest but have not been successful. My first corrective surgery is next Monday morning in Belfast. I will let you know what he suggests and what I then decide. Thank you for your mail. I appreciate it.

There were things which should have allerted me all along but unfortunately didnt. The woman who runs this practice is not a dentist but never left the surgery even though the dentist could speak English. She was really nice to me until I was unhappy. Many other things in hindsight should have made me uneasy. The owner and the dentist made decisions about my treatment. The implantologist turned up on the morning, injected me and inserted two implants. Until then because of all the decision making I thought that the dentist was the implantologist.

To cut what could be a long and boring story short after the surgery I was told not to eat anything for 4 hours. When I ate a meal before I left for the airport I found that large amounts of food trapped in the inside under the bridge. Only the inner side is open and I can actually feel the implant pins. I e mailed the owner and she said this was normal etc etc.

I was still unhappy and had the x rays taken by my friend's implantologist in Belfast. They had told me all along that the pain I was feeling on one side was expected and would settle down. I do not know the cause of it yet. Hopefully I will know on Monday.

The x rays clearly show problems about the angle and depth and even type of screw used by he implantologist. Pieces of cement are still falling off.
One alarming thing is that the owner told me that she was sending her dentist to Germany to train as an implantologist so they would be fully operational. The training? Two days!! She obviously thought nothing wrong with that or would not have told me. God help unsuspecting others.

I was accused by a member os scaremongering but if people go abroad I advised they ask companies who they are idemnified by as a safe guard.

Thanks Georgyporgy,
I will contact them next week. All I ever looked for is my money €4077 (their fee)back as I accept some responsibility about not checking out more fully. I felt I was being fair as mistakes do occur. Their attitude is now not too pleasant.

Hi,
I realise that now. Before I went I had an estimate from another dentist and it was £8,000 but it was for all implants. I let what was happening go over my head..... Until now. To be honest I did not see beyond what I was saving.

The dentist I am now using is an implantologist. I will let you know what happens after Monday.

Bentley Silly Outfielder wrote: »

May I ask what lead you to think the work was bad in the frist place for you to go see someone else...was there pain, or breakages??? Interesting thread

Hi Fitz
I had my first remedial work carried out today and am now in a fair bit of pain.

My left bridge took one full hour and a half to remove. in the process both implants came away. One had a little pus at the end so he recons I would have had serious trouble very soon.They had not taken to the bone at all and in the cement the dentist found an eyelash, yes an eyelash!

The bone needs to heal before he will touch my mouth again and as I head to India for three months in September this looks like its going to be a l o n g story.

He will support my complaint to the medical people in Budapest and has kept the pieces and the eyelash!!!.
Thanks all for your advice and support.
Kind regards

georgieporgy wrote: »

Maybe the guys on Revahealth will give this story some air time.

Hi Georgieporgy,
What or who are Revahealth?
regards

Hi,
and thanks to those who gave me advice. I have found an excellant solicitor who guarentees that he will ensure I am refunded +.

The survey out today will, thank goodness, make others more cautious about the type of people I met.