A dentist has been suspended for 11 months after an implant procedure he carried out left the patient with a nerve injury that still causes him to experience numbness on his lip and chin five years later.
Dr Kenji Chin Choon Tsze was found guilty in October 2023 of two charges of professional misconduct, according to published grounds of decision on the Singapore Dental Council’s (SDC) website.
The 61-year-old patient, known only as “Mr DT” in the disciplinary inquiry, had on May 22, 2018, consulted Dr Chin about a painful tooth at the 1728 Dental Practice in Ang Mo Kio.
Dr Chin did an X-ray of the jaw area and recommended replacing one tooth with an implant and placing a second implant next to it.
He then extracted the tooth that same day. Dr Chin told the patient that as there was insufficient bone height in the tooth area for both implants, he was to return in three months.
On Aug 4 that year, the patient returned to the clinic.
Dr Chin did another X-ray of his jaw, but the disciplinary committee said he did not take any appropriate pre-surgery measurement of the height of the alveolar bone – a bone in the jaw which contains tooth sockets.
Instead, he simply made estimations based on the X-ray images and proceeded with the tooth implant surgery.
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