"Periodontal implant"

Four years on since I had a periodontal implant (an injectable gel - abiomimetic biology-based product, which promotes the regrowth of hard and soft tissues lost due to periodontal disease). I am still suffering inflammation and other painful, miserable symptoms. I had hoped for a recovery, but it looks like it’s for life. The only progress - it has finally been admitted that I am suffering from an adverse reaction to the implant. I was given no details other than their claim that it is a rare adverse reaction. I don’t know if it’s a virus, an allergy or anything else. I haven’t been told if I will ever recover or how to minimise the pain. The periodontist, who instructed me to have the implant and did the procedure, the manufacturer and medical associations are now silent. There has been no compensation and definitely no apology from any of them. And it was only admitted after I presented hard evidence from many documents stating this implant causes such symptoms.  

The extreme pain led me to see dozens of doctors and contact endless government departments and ministers; in my opinion, none helped. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) wrote: The periodontist accepts that they did not warn of the alleged risks. However (sic) the periodontist submits that such risks were not known to them … (a specialist in periodontal implants who I believe boasted that they had been using this implant for 20 years when I asked about its safety and who is personally known by the manufacturers). The Health Commission said they had no resolution and couldn’t help, case closed.  The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) first wrote: reported incidences low… and cannot compel dentists to warn patients. TGA recently informed me of new federal legislation that requires manufacturers make available patient information leaflets for all permanently implantable medical devices. But will apply only to new patients not me.  One minister recommended I report to the insurance company; the periodontist's clinic refused to supply the insurance company’s name. A few GP’s recommended that I go back to the periodontist as they are the specialist. The periodonist’s clinic responded, in my opinion, with a letter threatening me with police arrest. 

As a friend said, if I had made myself ill with illicit drugs, I would have been given support and care, but I have been made ill by a doctor using a product made by a multi-million dollar company; so no one wants to know.