RTA Claim - Dental Injury Guide
This dental injury guide is intended to address compensation for damaged teeth. Should you have sustained more serious injuries including facial fractures you should refer to our head injury guide.
There are 2 dental charting systems used to identify teeth. Both separate the teeth into 4 quadrants: upper right; upper left; lower right; and lower left.
The teeth are numbered from the centre as follows:
- central incisor
- lateral incisor
- canine
- first premolar
- second premolar
- first molar
- second molar
- third molar (wisdom tooth)
The standard system used in the UK designates upper right as UR, upper left as UL, lower left as LL and lower right as LR. Your upper right canine is therefore UR3.
The International Dental Federation uses a different grid system with upper right being 1, upper left 2, lower left 3 and lower right 4. In this system your upper right canine becomes 13.
How much?
Example guideline awards for dental injuries are as follows:
| 1 | Loss of or serious damage to several front teeth | £5,750 to £7,500 |
| 2 | Loss of or damage to back teeth | £720 to £1,125 per tooth |
Conclusion
Dental injuries can command compensation from £720 to in excess of £7000. The valuation of the injuries is often linked to assessing other losses, which can be considerable. Never trust an insurance company to pay you proper compensation. Obtain sound legal advice. Call us.
- Further Information
- Brain Injury Guide
- Catastrophic Injury Guide
- Fatal Accident Claims
- Fracture Guide
- Head Injury Guide
- Ligament Damage Guide
- Multiple Injury Guide
- Pain
- Psychiatric Injury Guide
- Soft Tissue Damage Guide
- Whiplash Guide
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- Medical Abbreviations
- Medical Qualifications
- Medical Records
- Medical Symbols
- Medical Terminology
- Rehabilitation Guide
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