Condition
Facial injury expert reports
Independent opinion on damage to the teeth and face after trauma, and on what putting it right will cost over a lifetime.
The instruction
What the report addresses
Liability is usually established elsewhere. The dental expert is instructed because nobody else can value what the injury did to the dentition.
A tooth lost at twenty is not a single item of loss. It is a bridge or an implant, replaced several times across a life, with the bone beneath it slowly resorbing. The report sets out what will be needed, when, and at what cost.
Clinical evidence
Injuries we report on
Avulsed teeth
Teeth knocked out entirely, whether or not re-implanted.
Fractured teeth
Crown or root fractures, and the restorations they commit the claimant to.
Displaced teeth
Luxation injuries, and the risk of later loss of vitality.
Soft-tissue injury
Lacerations and scarring where dental or maxillofacial input is needed.
Loss of dentition
Where prosthetic management becomes lifelong.
Prognosis and future cost
Prognosis, and the cost that follows it
Traumatised teeth fail late. A tooth that survives the accident may lose vitality years afterwards, and a re-implanted tooth commonly resorbs and is eventually lost.
The expert states the prognosis for each affected tooth, then costs the consequences: the root canal treatment that will probably be needed, the crown that will be replaced several times, the implant that will one day fail and be replaced. A schedule that assumes the current restoration is permanent undervalues the claim, sometimes substantially.
Where the claimant is young, the replacement cycle is the dominant element of the award.
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What is the prognosis for each tooth?
Including teeth that survived the accident but may lose vitality later.
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What will the replacement cycle cost?
Root canal treatment, crowns replaced several times, an implant that will one day fail.
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How young is the claimant?
The younger the claimant, the more the replacement cycle dominates the award.
Discipline-led matching
The expert we match
Restorative dentist
For the dentition and its prosthetic future — the schedule of what the injury will cost across a lifetime.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Where the facial skeleton or soft tissue is involved.
Where the instruction crosses those boundaries, we identify the required disciplines before you instruct and provide the proposed CV.
Expert evidence
The report you receive
Why solicitors instruct us
The schedule is the claim, and late failure is foreseeable.
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The schedule is the claim
We match an expert who costs the replacement cycle across the claimant’s expected lifetime, rather than the treatment needed today.
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Late failure is foreseeable
A report that does not allow for a traumatised tooth failing in ten years has left money on the table.
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Keep one case-management contact
A named case manager coordinates the instruction, the proposed CV and the agreed report scope, and tells you where it stands before you ask.
FAQs
Commonly asked questions
The expert sets out what will be needed and at what intervals across the claimant’s expected lifetime, and costs it, allowing for restorations failing and being replaced.
For condition and prognosis, usually. A records review can answer some questions but not the current clinical picture.
Yes. The cost of future dental care is often the substantial element.
Success is often temporary. The report addresses the likelihood of later resorption and loss.
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