February 11, 2008 by SUM.

Today, I would like to summarize the results of my Crest Night Effects experience. As the situation is now, my teeth were damaged by Crest Night Effects, I received a misdirected and faulty examination at the UW Dental Clinic, and afterwards I was charged for an examination that should have never taken place.

At the end of November 2007, I wrote a letter to the UW in which I stated my concerns about the misdirected and faulty examination and a billing that I consider unjust. As of this day I haven’t received a reply from the UW, but since that day I haven’t received any other letters from the collection agency.

For the past few months I followed more closely news article about medical mistakes and how hospitals will handle the billing process. One article stated that hospitals will tear up bills for medical mistakes. The article was written on January 29th in the Seattle Times. In the article I read the following: ‘”If we can avoid adding insult to injury where patients have been affected by an adverse event, then we’re taking a step that is right,” said Dr. Brian Wicks, president of the state Medical Association.’ I felt the insult to injury as well.

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July 17, 2007 by SUM.

A couple years ago I saw a car parked, with the words “Invisible Fence” painted on it, on a parking lot at an Antique Mall, which I visited quite often. You all have heard the words “glass ceiling”. It is an invisible but unmistakable barrier; not only on the career ladder of a woman, but also of another member of a demographic minority within an organization.

Due to my experiences here in the Bellevue, Redmond, and Seattle area, I’m experiencing another kind of barrier, or let’s call it discriminatory boundary. I know I’m entitled to the claims described under Crest Night Effects. As of today, I have written more than 40 attorneys in this area and informed them of my two claims that call for taking legal action. But nobody showed serious interest in helping me in this matter. Some replied, while the majority kept silent. A few attorneys actually gave me either odd and/or incompetent counsel.

I believe that some of my experiences were not only purposefully orchestrated, but also meant with the intent to mislead. Read the articles about the Lake Washington Technical College. My experiences there had been purposefully manipulated, too. And these aren’t the only places, where I experienced purposefully planned manipulation and deception.

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June 16, 2007 by SUM.

Since June 8th I’ve written a short message to several lawyers who handle malpractice and personal injury claims stating my claims and pointing to my ShadowBlog site, where they can get more detailed information. Due to not receiving any reply from quite a few lawyers, I decided to contact a few more.

As of today I received two answers. One lawyer sent me the name of another lawyer. And I wrote this lawyer an email last Monday. Another lawyer wrote me to contact an attorney who I actually had contacted already at the end of 2004. And that lawyer had not only been not supportive, he had advised me to consult with the UW dental clinic where the malpratice took place.

The lawyer who wrote me today pointed out that “Damages including reasonable attorney fees can be awarded for filing frivolous cases.”

Today, I sent a short reply to this lawyer stating that my claim is not frivolous, and I’ll continue writing about my claims and pursue getting legal counsel to take legal actions.

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June 12, 2007 by SUM.

Last Friday I wrote fife lawyers in this area an email and informed them of my malpractice and product liability claim. Though I received an answer from two of the lawyers I had written, neither one of them is interested in helping me to pursue my claims. But one attorney gave me the name of another attorney to contact. I wrote this attorney an email message yesterday, too. In the next few weeks I’ll focus on contacting lawyers and pointing them to my website where they can get some essential info about my claims.

While I searched for attorneys in this area and reading articles about malpractice suits in the newspapers, I read the article “What the state didn’t know about doctor, malpractice suit” in the Seattle Times. Reading this article reminded me of my own malpractice encounters after consulting with physicians in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond area. I not only got severely ill after some preventive medical procedures, I didn’t receive correct treatment either.

All this was very frightening, and I thought that I needed to report this at least to the Department of Health and an insurance company. Though I didn’t pursue any legal actions, I know I had to report the injury and mistreatment to someone who is responsible for overseeing the health care system. For me it was ‘the right thing to do.’ But after having read this article, I’m not sure anymore whether it was sufficient to report the incidents only to the Department of Health and an insurance company who didn’t investigate the case properly.

I’m coming to the conclusion that I should have taken legal steps in these cases, too. I’ll describe some of the malpractice incidents, in a chronological order as they happened, on this website, too, under the theme ‘malpractice.’

And I’ll keep you informed about my claims against the UW dental school and the company who manufactured Crest Night Effects and/or sold the product.

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May 22, 2007 by SUM.

As I have already mentioned in my last Crest Night Effects post I have to find a reliable lawyer who will support me in my pursuit of justice. Yesterday, I found the letter from Dr. G. in my files, which were, since moving my household last year, not properly filed yet.

After posting this article I’ll contact lawyers to find out what kind of possibilities I have in my pursuit of justice.

Dr. G. wrote her letter on June 3rd, 2005 and she mailed copies of her letter to two other physicians at the UW dental clinic. Her letter consisted of three pages and two copies of scientific papers on ‘dental erosion.’

Without going too much into her letter, I believe a lawyer needs to examine this letter more closely, I noticed a few errors in it. Here I would like to mention only two major errors. One major error was that she assumed that my diet and health history had been constant over the years, which is not the case. And the other major error was that she wrote in her letter that she had based her findings on a different product from Crest tooth whitening.

The product she referred to in her letter was also from the brand Crest, but it wasn’t the product that I had applied to my teeth in July 2004. She confused Crest Whitening Strips with Crest Night Effects, which is a totally different product.

During her examination she actually had not asked me for a sample of the product that I had applied to my teeth. She actually didn’t know the product that I had used and made an assessment that was faulty from the beginning.

As I have mentioned already in my previous posts I should never have been transferred to her. After I had read her letter, I couldn’t believe that I received such a letter from a physician working at the UW dental clinic. Her errors were obvious and her assessment based on the wrong facts. She ended her letter telling me that I could give her a call if I have questions.

Since I experienced a wrong transferal, a bogus examination, and a faulty assessment based on the wrong facts, I chose not to contact Dr. G. or any other UW dental clinic employee.

But the UW dental clinic kept on sending me the invoice that I refuse to pay. Reasons for not wanting to pay the invoice are described in this post and the previous ones.

For quite some time I received the invoice directly from the UW accounting center. Lately, I receive letters from a collection agency based in Tempe, AZ.

The amount of the bill has slightly increased, and it wouldn’t be a financial burden for me to pay it, but in my opinion it is not appropriate to pay a bill that has been wrong from the beginning.

So, here are the two matters I need to tackle with. I have to tackle with an incorrect invoice from the UW dental clinic send to collection and a company whose product has damaged my teeth.

After posting this article I’ll contact lawyers myself, but if you know of a reliable lawyer who works in the legal fields that I need help in, please forward this article to this person so that they can read it and decide whether they want to contact me.

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May 10, 2007 by SUM.

I have to keep on writing about this matter because I need a reliable lawyer who will support me in my pursuit of justice.

So far I’ve not been compensated for the pain and damage caused by this product. Additionally, the wrongful treatment at the UW, not to mention the suffering that I endured because of it, had as a result a bill from the UW dental clinic that I refuse to pay because of reasons outlined already in my previous posts.

I’m pretty much convinced now that someone instigated something against me and due to this person’s influence in this area others have partaken in it. What I’ve experienced here is not only unacceptable and corruptive, it is just plain wrong.

For a few years now I’m experiencing constantly some kind of deception, misinformation, and wrongful treatment when visiting physician offices. Therefore I’m writing about it publicly instead of just keeping it locked away in my private journal.

I didn’t receive an answer from the dean of the UW dental clinic, but I received a letter from Dr. G. who just repeated her conclusion, which she had told me already during her bogus examination. As soon I find her letter in my files I’ll write about it.

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May 2, 2007 by SUM.

In one of my earlier posts I wrote that I mailed a letter to the dean of the UW dental clinic on 16th May 2005. In the letter to the dean I stated the following reasons for my request to have the charge of $240.00 canceled.

1. Receiving an incorrect referral (which I didn’t know at that time) from the UW School of Dentistry to Dr. G. at the Oral Medicine Clinical Services on Feb 7, 2005.

2. Dr. G. didn’t use appropriate methods and technological equipment for the examination of my teeth for the reasons why I had contacted the UW School of Dentistry from the beginning.

3. Dr. G.’s reasons for the damage to my teeth were based not on scientific knowledge and the correct use of current technology, but on feelings.

I also wrote that I considered her physical examination and her conclusions neither scientific accurate nor appropriate for a research school.

Additionally, I added that it was not appropriate from Dr. G. to tell me that my perception was incorrect. Dr. G. had told me during the bogus examination that my teeth must have been damaged before I used Crest Night Effects. But I knew that my teeth had looked quite different before I applied Crest Night Effects on my lower anterior teeth.

I also wrote that I had visited a dentist office in Bellevue after I had consulted with Dr. G., and the dentist had confirmed that the damage to my teeth must have occurred after I had taken the x-rays in February 2004. Additionally, I mentioned that Dr. G. hadn’t followed-through with her words. Up to that time I had neither received a phone call nor a letter from her telling me whom else I could contact for further examinations at the UW dental clinic.

Now, two years later I’m writing about this case, after not receiving appropriate service and correct information. Over time it became obvious to me that Dr. G. had a hidden agenda. But she isn’t the only one and is involved in this matter, too. I’ll continue writing about this matter in other posts, but I like to mention here that this ordeal has additionally caused me harm not only financially, but in areas that I’ll confront later.

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April 23, 2007 by SUM.

After dentist Dr. C. had told me that less abrasion is noticeable on the x-rays taken in February 2004 than the ones he had taken, I called Dr. G. at the UW office. Up to that time I had neither received a phone call nor any written information from her.

I called her on Tuesday, 22nd March, and left the message with her answering service to let me know whom I could contact at the UW so that I could proceed with my Crest Night Effects case.

In the following weeks I received an invoice for $240.00 from the UW. I’m not sure when I received the invoice for the first time. I believe the invoice was dated on March 15th.

After not hearing anything back from Dr. G. and receiving an invoice that I found not only unjust for the actual service received but also for the misguided transferal, I decided to write the Dean of the UW dental school a letter to object the invoice.

I sent the letter to the UW dental clinic on 16th May 2005 per registered mail. In my next posts I’ll write about this letter and the letters I received thereafter from the UW dental clinic.

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April 19, 2007 by SUM.

Before I continue with the other bizarre incidents concerning the consultation at the UW dental clinic, I must correct one of my previous entries.

I visited the dentist’s office in Bellevue on 16th March and not a couple weeks before I consulted with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic. I thought I had visited him a couple weeks before I consulted the UW dental clinic, but had only forgotten to write down my encounter with him in my journal. But I wrote it down when it actually did happen, which was on March 16th.

I had told the hygienist at Dr. C’s dental office that I had been in contact with the UW dental clinic because of the damage to my lower teeth. But as of this day I had not heard back from Dr. G. whom I had asked for a name of another dentist at the UW clinic who could carry out actual tests with the product Crest Night Effects.

Though Dr. G. had told me that she would call me back and let me know which other dentist I could consult within the UW dental clinic, I had neither received a phone call nor a letter from her.

Dr. C. who had made some x-rays of my frontal teeth on that day said to me after comparing the x-rays taken in February 2004 and the ones he had taken “I see some abrasion, but less what you have now.” And he added that I should go back to the UW dental clinic and consult with a dentist from the reconstructive department because he also thought that I had been set up with the wrong person.

Since I didn’t have an answering machine nor an answering service I wasn’t sure whether Dr. G. may have tried to call me to give me the contact name for another dentist who I could contact at the UW dental clinic. I neither received a phone call nor a letter from her up to this day.

I had canceled my answering service with my phone company because I have had no use for it at that time, but I had not replaced it with my own answering machine. But on that day I decided to go to Computer City and buy a simple answering machine so that someone could leave a message.

Irrespective of not having an answering machine the encounters at the UW dental clinic were bizarre and everything what followed thereafter. And I’ll write about this in my next posts.

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April 19, 2007 by SUM.

If you followed my description of the events that pertains to this case you’ll maybe get the feeling, too, that I was not only misinformed but also given inappropriate service or you’d think inadequate.

With time I felt that I was purposefully directed in a demeaning position where I was humiliated and mocked.

I found it also puzzling that nobody cared to take a look at the product itself. Nobody of the attorneys or dentists I had contacted asked me for a sample of this product.

But at the end of last year when I had my teeth cleaned at a dental office in Redmond, the hygienist who cleaned my teeth asked me to give her a sample after I had told her what had happened to my lower teeth. She said to me that she hadn’t seen this product and I handed her an application. I should have asked her what she wanted to do with the sample, but I didn’t at that moment. And I haven’t seen her since.

I had bought at Costco one package that included two packages and each contained 14 applications. Since I stopped using this product after I had noticed that it had damaged my teeth many are left over.

In my next posts concerning this matter I’ll continue writing about the other bizarre occurrences that followed after the consultation with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic.

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