'I thought I was in safe hands’: Routine dentist appointment left wood chipper 'in agony and hospitalised for 17 days'

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A man who claims he was hospitalised for more than two weeks following a visit to a Stockport dentist has been handed five-figure sum in an out of court settlement.

Christopher Weate was treated at Park House Dental Surgery in Brinnington Health Centre between 2012 and 2015. The 49-year-old wood chipper believed he was ‘in safe hands’ at the surgery, but was left in agony - claiming he was left with sores in his mouth oozing pus.

He endured a 'nightmarish few months', culminating, he says, in a 17-day hospital stay. “It was in 2016 when my tooth problems became really severe,” Mr Weate said. “I went back to the practice with pain and I was told I would need root canal treatment or extraction of one of my teeth.

The tooth wasn’t extracted for some time and I started to experience swelling, pus and inflammation so I was prescribed antibiotics.” READ MORE: BBC Dragons' Den viewers say episode should have 'come with warning' over Steven Bartlett comment “I eventually had the tooth extracted and was again given antibiotics.