Ricketts v. Advanced Dental Care, LLC

Mikell, Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to Advanced Dental Care, LLC (“ADC”), in Otis G. Ricketts’s action alleging negligence and dental malpractice. Mr. Ricketts alleges that he swallowed dental impression material while a dental assistant in *481ADC’s office made an impression of his removable partial denture (“partial”), that he informed the assistant, that she told him it would pass through his system, and that the material lodged in his colon, causing an obstruction requiring emergency surgery. It is undisputed that Mr. Ricketts began experiencing severe abdominal…