Wiley v. Gibson

Painter, Presiding Judge.

This lawsuit was originally filed over eleven years ago. This is its third visit to this court, and the case has been to the Ohio Supreme Court twice. Lonnie Wiley and Shelly Wiley, plaintiffs-appellants, have not, as yet, received a jury trial.

In 1985, Lonnie Wiley visited dentist Reginald Gibson, defendant-appellee, to have a bridge seated. When Gibson injected a local anesthetic, Wiley felt a sharp stabbing pain. He was left with a permanent numbness and loss of sensation over half of his face. Wiley filed suit for dental malpractice and for failure to obtain…