u/summertimes1702

Not a dentist, I'm ortho, but I read consumer judgments for work. This one came out of Punjab SCDRC last week and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

NRI patient, lives in UK, comes to Jalandhar to get his old bridge replaced. Quote is 97k for 3 implants plus a crown repair. He says too much, asks for cheaper. Dentist drops it to 2 implants, 64k. Patient signs a consent form saying he won't claim anything if it fails, pays, flies home.

Three months later the bridge is loose. He flies back. Redone free. That one cracks in the middle after five months. Flies back again. Dentist tries a different design, one end on the implant, other end cemented to a natural tooth. Snaps in two.

Then covid hits and he can't travel. He gives up, gets a denture made in UK for £500, files a complaint. District forum orders the full 64k back plus 15k. Dentist appeals.

And in appeal he makes a good argument. The implants were fine. They integrated, held for years, carried a PFM bridge, can't come out without surgery. What kept failing was the prosthesis on top. So charge me for the bridge, not the surgery.

Commission asks him what the bridge cost.

Nothing in the record. The bill showed charges against "dental implant" and that's it. No separate figure for the prosthetic work, nothing showing where one ended and the other began. No split on paper means no split in law. Full refund.

Eight and a half years from first appointment to final order.

Two things I want your take on:

The consent form never appears in the judgment. Not once. He pleaded it and the bench just doesn't engage. If you're relying on a no-refund-on-failure clause, that should worry you.

And the clinical bit, since I don't do this work. 4 unit bridge on 2 implants, one of them reportedly in the middle and later removed. Doomed or defensible? Because nobody in the case ever asked. There's zero expert evidence in the file. A dental negligence case got decided without a single dentist giving evidence.

Takeaway: Surgical phase and prosthetic phase as separate lines with separate amounts. Costs you nothing at billing time and it's the one thing that would have saved him here.

ortho trauma, govt setup, most of what i operate comes through casualty. i wear a whoop high on my upper arm over the biceps, so i never have to take it off. scrub, glove, doesn't matter, it stays on. also means nobody asks me what it is. so it's been quietly recording everything in the OT for months without me thinking about it.

june, distal humerus. butterfly fragment, had to go long plate and fix the fragment to the shaft, and explore the radial nerve and keep it safe. bone was soft. two hours plus with the clamp and the c arm.

checked the app that night out of habit. averaged 115 bpm across those two hours. peak 151. my resting that morning was 51.

that's not physical work. i know what that morning actually felt like.

fast forward. 14th september, two cases back to back. a supracondylar in a young child that had been sitting 20 days and already started uniting. then a medial condyle humerus, also a child. both fought me. on the medial condyle i kept getting the reduction and kept losing it.

third time it slipped what i felt was basically — ok this'll take longer than i planned, i can still get it. that's it. same stakes. same difficulty. just not living in my head while my hands worked.

so i pulled four months of numbers:

• june median intraop hr 110. september 77
• cases got longer, not shorter. 127 → 145 min median
• resting hr 52 → 51, so not fitness
• tagged every single case, not just the scary ones

the one that got me: that medial condyle, 78 min of a reduction that wouldn't hold, whoop scored the whole case at a strain of 0.0. nothing. by everything it could measure i'd spent that hour and a quarter sitting in a chair.

i analysed my own data and already believed the answer before looking. i also got 40 cases more experienced over the same four months, which is exactly the window anyone would settle in regardless. if you made me bet i'd bet on experience, not the breathing exercise i started. also my sleep on operating days vs non operating days — literally no difference. a thing i'd have confidently claimed at a dinner table turned out to be false.

why here: i spent my UG and PG years assuming everyone senior was calm and i was the only one whose hands were sweating. turns out i was at 115 and never told anyone. it does come down. not because it gets less serious, it doesn't. it just stops being the thing occupying your head while you work.

full write up with the actual charts and x-rays https://endorphinmd.com/80-hours-of-surgery-on-a-heart-rate-strap-i-didnt-get-fitter-i-got-less-afraid/, happy to answer stuff in comments

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