Question : Any info on how osteoporosis medications can cause osteonecrosis . Why doesn’t?
Sally Fields discuss this when she talks of all the benefits of Boniva? I’m facing dental surgery and had to sign exhaustive releases that I accept the responsibility for the possibility my jaw bone dying with a simple extraction.I’m really amazed nothing much is advertised about this. It is a nightmarish condition.
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Answer by memee
Most attorneys will tell you that those type of things MD’s make you sign off on to receive their care/treatment are not enforceable under the law. The standard of care is the burden the dentist or MD carries. Any patient they accept into their practice and work with/on are covered by that practitioner’s medical judgment. Signing a form by a patient does not let any medical professional out of their ultimate responsibility. It’s the same type of forms they make you sign off on that going into a full hospital surgery under general anesthesia, that you may have X and Y complications. They have warned you of the hazards and risks known, but again, it does not release the medical professional from the ‘standards of care’ their type of practice entails. If they really DON’T want you as a patient, and they really feared what they are going to do to you has a grave chance of causing further problems, they would not accept you as a patient. These forms hitting many dentist are given then as hand-out ‘suggestions’ by professional associations, drug manufactures, and some professional conferences they attend. In a court of law, these amount to your signing off as an uniformed patient. Any good attorney knows these loops. Not that anyone wishes you end up with Jaw osteonecrosis of course.