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I saw the dentist do this

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Lostintransfixation · 08/01/2020 18:59

Touch his nose just before injecting my daughter. She then developed a huge infection on the injection site and needed two lots of antibiotics. Actually three but they changed one mid course. I was on the verge of telling the dentist to change his gloves but I didn't. I don't know why. I feel really guilty that I didn't. DD was having a tooth extraction in order for an orthodontist to fit a brace a while later. I have told the dentist about the infection but not what I saw him do. I don't struggle with giving feedback usually, but this time I timed it all wrong. DD didn't tell us about the growing abcess/infection until it got very bad and she felt unwell. She was referred to an out of hours GP at the hospital and then they referred there and then to a specialist there. He prescribed the first course of antibiotics. Dd immediately went away for a week and needed to be seen by a dentist and GP while she was away. She wants to change her dentist and I don't blame her. I don't want any of us to go to him again. But I don't know whether to change practices or just the dentist. I took her to him after the holiday and he didn't say anything other than it was cleared up. I know I should have told him what he did. This type of infection isn't common but can happen. WWYD now? It's been 5 months and she has been sent an appointment.

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TigerBreadAddict · 08/01/2020 19:02

It’s not nice but the mouth is not a sterile place and is teaming with bacteria. I think infection is unlikely to have been caused by the dentist touching their own skin with their gloved hand prior to injecting a sterile needle.
Was it the extraction site that became infected? ie the tooth socket?

Lostintransfixation · 08/01/2020 19:05

Fair point. It was the injection site not the tooth socket. So the roof of her mouth became infected. An ulcerated abscess the size of a 50p. It was nasty. The dentist wiped his nostril with his index finger... Inwould feel bettering it wasn't that. I just need to decide whether avoiding him or the practice is reasonable. NHS dentists for 5 people are hard to find...

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Lostintransfixation · 08/01/2020 19:06

Feel better if it wasnt caused by that, but chance...

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HelpMeGetAGrip · 08/01/2020 19:08

I think it was just a coincidence. If he had picked his actual nose and then licked it and then inserted into your daughters mouth then maybe but actually just touching his own skin won’t cause an infection . I think it was just unlucky .
Hope she feels better soon

Greyhound22 · 08/01/2020 21:20

I don't think that would have caused the infection in all honesty.

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