Srinivasan broke his file while performing root canal on my tooth. He did not make any attempt to remove it. Nor did he advise me of seeking another specialist to remove the broken file. Instead he led me to think that the tooth was doomed: He told me the tooth was cracked which later turned out to be a lie.
Six months later I experienced severe pain and inflammation. I called Srinivasan on a Sunday morning . He sounded apprehensive and said (& it was six months ago ). Antibiotics brought the inflammation down.
Two years of intermittent pain and swelling of the tooth followed.
Finally, I asked another endodontist to decide the next step, possibly extraction. He chose one of the two possible standard methods to remove the broken file and succeeded in less than 45 minutes, including repairing the tooth! He said there was no cracking, but while removing the filling done by Srinivasan, he found 7 or 8 little drilled hole patterns inside the tooth (resulting from Srinivasan attempts to find the root canal), one of those holes perforated the side of the tooth well below the gum line.
The tooth is now alive and well.
out of 5 stars
