{"id":6015,"date":"2010-07-09T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2010-07-09T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:46:22","slug":"dentist-to-pay-rs-57200-for-extracting-wrong-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/dentist-to-pay-rs-57200-for-extracting-wrong-tooth","title":{"rendered":"Dentist to pay Rs.57,200 for extracting wrong tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>: A dentist, accused of extracting a wrong tooth, has been directed by a consumer dispute forum here to pay Rs.57,200 as compensation to the patient.<\/p>\n<p>The district consumer disputes redressal forum Thursay directed Kohli to pay a compensation of Rs.50,000 for causing mental agony and harassment to the complainant, Rs.5,000 for covering the cost of litigation and Rs.2,200 for the medical expense.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, Poonam Devi had in June 2009 gone to Ashima Kohli&#8217;s private dental clinic in Sector 30 here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I visited the clinic as I had pain in my lower jaw. Earlier, a doctor had suggested the extraction of my sixth tooth in the lower jaw, as it was infected. I apprised Kohli about this, but she diagnosed that the seventh tooth was causing pain,&#8221; Poonam Devi told IANS Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She extracted the seventh tooth, but it did not bring me any relief. On visiting a government doctor, I found that the actual problem was still with the sixth tooth. When I approached Kohli, she misbehaved with me and my husband and refused to meet us. Following this, we approached the consumer forum,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer forum referred the medical reports to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here. 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